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Six Months After Sandy, N.J. Battles Back A mountain of debris is sifted through in Seaside Heights.
Highway Equipment Co. Celebrates Milestone…8
Groff Tract or Buys Assets of Vernon E. Stup…32
By Giles Lambertson
Three Major Bridge Contracts Awarded SIT ECH Ho sts Eve nt at MetLi fe St adium…36
By David Porter
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NEW YORK (AP) The three major bridges connecting New Jersey and Staten Island will get facelifts of varying degrees totaling nearly $3 billion over the next several years, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey announced April 24 in what officials called a historic development for the recently embattled agency. The Port Authority approved contracts for work on the Bayonne and Goethals bridges and the Outerbridge Crossing, all to begin this year. The biggest piece will be the replacement of the 85-year-old Goethals Bridge at a cost of $1.5 billion that will be funded by a publicprivate partnership. The Port Authority will spend $1.3 billion to raise the roadway of the Bayonne Bridge by 64 ft. (19.5 m) in order to accommodate larger cargo ships anticipated to
Paving Section ............63-79 Attachments Section 83-112 Parts Section ..................138 Auction Section ......142-160 Business Calendar ..........148 Advertisers Index............158
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CEG CORRESPONDENT
Nothing about Hurricane Sandy was neat. In the first place, the storm that wrecked parts of New Jersey and adjacent states wasn’t even a hurricane. By the time it smashed and flooded the
New Jersey coast, it had been downgraded to a gale with 80 mile-per-hour winds. Yet in its hurricane landfalls elsewhere in the Atlantic Ocean plus its post-hurricane battering of the mainland United States, the storm wreaked enough damage that the World Meteorological Organization has see SANDY page 120
Obama Taps Charlotte Mayor to Run Transportation Dept. By Julie Pace AP WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is nominating Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx to run the Transportation Department, a White House official said. The White House official said that as mayor, Foxx has experience in boosting transit infrastructure and using those projects to create jobs. He oversaw a program to cre-
ate an electric tram service to Charlotte, an expansion of a light rail system and the opening of a third runway at the city’s airport. Foxx was first elected Charlotte mayor in 2009. Foxx would replace outgoing Secretary Ray LaHood, one of the few Republicans serving in the Democratic administration. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)