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Analysis Finds Many Bridges Require Repair
Borough in Allegheny County. The project includes the replacement of the existing truss style bridge with a 1,600-ft. (488 m) steel, multi-girder structure. The new bridge will be located directly upstream of the existing bridge, and will include four 11-ft. (3.3 m) lanes (two lanes in each direction), a 4-ft. (1.2 m) median, 6-ft. (1.8 m) shoulders on each side
Data from a new government report shows that if all the structurally deficient bridges in the United States were placed end-to-end, it would take you 25 hours driving 60 miles per hour to cross them. That’s like driving the 1,500 mi. between Boston and Miami. And it’s a problem that’s close to home. An analysis of the 2013 National Bridge Inventory database recently released by the U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) shows cars, trucks and school buses cross the nation’s more than 63,000 structurally compromised bridges 250 million times every day. The most heavily traveled are on the Interstate system. The problem could get a lot worse, the chief economist of the American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) said, as states across the nation face a slowdown in reimbursements for already approved federal-aid highway projects in August. Without congressional action, Alison Premo Black said there will be no Highway Trust Fund support for any new road, bridge, or public transportation projects in any state during FY 2015, which begins Oct. 1. “Letting the Highway Trust Fund investment dry up would have a devastating impact on bridge repairs,” Black said, noting the trust fund has supported $89 billion in bridge
see HULTON page 116
see BRIDGES page 122
Pine Bush Hosts Atlas Copco Demo…18
Kennedy Wins Technician of the Year…26
Brayman Construction Corporation constructs the foundation for abutment #1 adjacent to Freeport Road and the Harmar approach.
Work Continues to Replace Hulton Bridge in $64.8M Project Allen Engineering Marks 50 Year Anniversary…36
Table of Contents ............4 Truck & Trailer Section ...... ..................................61-65 Recycling Section ....69-95 Attachment & Parts Section ..................103-109
By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
The replacement of a bridge that is more than 100 years old is well on the way in Oakmont, Pa. The Hulton Bridge spans the Allegheny River and the Norfolk Southern Railroad to connect Harmar Township and Oakmont
NJDOT Proposes $3.7B for Transportation The
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The proposed capital budget focuses on safe-
“This proposed program boosts investments
Auction Section....114-129 Transportation (NJDOT) announced a proposed ty, mobility, and maintaining assets in a state of in our roads and bridges that New Jersey resiBusiness Calendar ......118 Advertisers Index ........130
capital program for Fiscal Year 2015 that supports $2.5 billion in NJDOT and other agency investments and another $1.2 billion in NJ Transit improvements, for a total program of $3.7 billion.
good repair. It supports the largest project in NJDOT history —the Pulaski Skyway rehabilitation — and maintains Local Aid grants to counties and municipalities at robust levels to help ease burdens on local property taxpayers.
dents rely upon for safe and efficient travel to work, school and other daily activities,” said NJDOT Commissioner James Simpson. “We are focusing our investment dollars on the see TRANSPORTATION page 96