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Work Zone Safety Measures Need Improvement
Albany’s Patroon Island Bridge is Complete...8
USACE Baltimore District photo
Approximately 2.63 million cu. yds. (2.01 million cu m) of material consisting primarily of mud, silt, sand, shell and mixtures thereof is being removed from the channels as part of these maintenance operations. Kobelco Hosts New Facility Grand Opening...22
Stephenson Supplies Crane to C.P.Ward . ..44
Table of Contents ....................4 Paving Section ..................53-67 Air Compressors, Generators & Light Towers Section........71-82 Parts Section ........................120 Auction Section ............124-133 Business Calendar................132 Advertisers Index ................134
Army Corps of Engineers Tidies Up Baltimore Harbor By Brenda Ruggiero CEG CORRESPONDENT
Crews under contract of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District (Md.), are currently dredging roughly 2.6 million cu. yds. (1.9 million cu m) of materi-
al from the Baltimore Harbor and Channels navigation project. The $25.6 million contract was awarded this past fall. This dredging began the first week of March, and is reportedly being performed to ensure continued safe navigation in and out
Thirty-nine percent of highway contractors reported that motor vehicles had crashed into their construction work zones during the past year, according to the results of a new highway work zone study conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials urged summer travel motorists to stay alert while driving through work zones, noting that highway workers are in danger and drivers and passengers face an even higher risk of being hurt or killed in work zone crashes. “Any time your job site is just a few feet away from fast moving traffic, danger is never far away,” said Jeff DiStefano, the vice chairman of Harrison & Burrows Bridge Constructors in Glenmont, N.Y., and chairman of the association’s Highway and Transportation Division. “The easiest way to improve work zone safety is to get motorists to slow down and pay attention.” DiStefano said that 44 percent of contractors who reported work zone crashes on their projects said that motor vehicle operators or passengers were injured, and 12 percent of those crashes involved a driver or passenger fatality. Highway work zone crashes also pose a significant risk for construction workers, DiStefano noted. He said 18 percent of work zone crashes injure construction
see HARBOR page 90
see SAFETY page 96
Communities Seek $9.3B in Transportation Funding DOT Receives 585 Applications for 2016 TIGER Grant Program U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx announced that the Transportation Investment Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant program has received 585 applications from across the country totaling $9.3 billion in requested funding — more than 18 times the $500 million that will be awarded. Now in its eighth year, the TIGER program has continued to attract overwhelming demand
from communities of all sizes, with 337 applications coming from urban areas and 248 from rural communities. The high level of interest underscores the continued need for transportation investment nationwide. “Communities across the country know that if we want a strong, multimodal transportation system that will meet our needs in the future, we need to make meaningful investments today,”
said Foxx. “As we have seen year after year, there are far more worthy projects than we can fund through TIGER, demonstrating the need for a serious, long-term investment in transportation funding.” Like the first seven rounds, 2016 TIGER discretionary grants will fund capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure and will see TIGER page 96