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Inside
Fulton Street Transit Center in Transition
Hal Ewing, CEG VP, Emeritus, Dies. ..8
AP Photo/Pool, Mark Lennihan
Ironworkers Jim Brady, (L), and Billy Geoghan release a steel cable after connecting a steel beam between two columns at the top of One World Trade Center to make it New York City’s tallest skyscraper.
WTC Is Back on Top in New York City
Cali C arting Purchases Cat CT660...14
Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Transportation Authority/Patrick Cashin
Construction continues on the Fulton Street Transit Center’s iconic dome and oculus.
By Lori Lovely CEG CORRESPONDENT
Topc on Helps Wi th Crui se Shi pwreck. .. 24
Table of Contents ............4 Wheel Loaders, Tool Carriers & Attachments Section....................71-101 Paving Section ....103-116 Parts Section ..............128
Ten years after construction began — and seven after its original scheduled completion date — the Fulton Street Transit Center project overseen by MTA Capital Construction is now expected to be finished in 2014. Plagued by budget shortfalls and
Highway Bill Enters Legislative Homestretch, Approval Uncertain By Joan Lowy ASSOCIATED PRESS
Advertisers Index ........150
NEW YORK (AP) One World Trade Center, the giant monolith being built to replace the twin towers destroyed in the Sept. 11 attacks, layed claim to the title of New York City’s tallest skyscraper on April 30. Workers erected steel columns that made its unfinished skeleton a little over 1,250 ft. high, just enough to peak over the roof of the observation deck on the Empire State Building. The milestone is a preliminary one. Workers are still adding floors to the so-called “Freedom Tower” and it isn’t expected to reach its full height for at least another year, at which point it is likely to be declared the tallest building in see CENTER page 40 the United States, and third tallest in the world. Those bragging rights, though, will carry an asterisk. Crowning the world’s tallest buildings is a little like picking the heavyweight champion in boxing. There is often disagreement about who deserves the belt. In this case, the issue involves the 408-ft.-tall The bill is driven partly by election-year pol- needle that will sit on the tower’s roof. itics. Both Congress and President Barack Count it, and the World Trade Center is back Obama have made transportation infrastructure on top. Otherwise, it will have to settle for No. investment the centerpiece of their jobs agen- 2, after the Willis Tower in Chicago. das. But the political imperative for passing a “Height is complicated,” said Nathaniel bill has been complicated by House Hollister, a spokesman of The Council on Tall Republicans’ insistence on including a mandate
numerous complications stemming from working in the most densely populated area in the country, the project’s goal is to improve access to and connections between 11 Metropolitan Transportation Authority subway stations in Lower Manhattan, easing congestion for the 300,000 daily commuters, residents and visitors.
Business Calendar ......138 Auction Section ..134-152
By David B. Caruso ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON (AP) Defying expectations, Congress has reached the homestretch on a major overhaul of federal transportation programs that is critical if the nation is to avoid steep cutbacks in highway and transit aid.
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see WTC page 129