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N.J. Memorial to Debut for 9/11 Anniversary Crews construct the fountain foundations.
Low Carbon City Rises in the UAE…8
Edward Ehrbar Named Broce Distribut or…14
By Mary Reed CEG CORRESPONDENT
Like thousands of others, the residents in Weehawken, N.J., across the river from lower Manhattan, rallied around to help the rescue effort on Sept. 11, 2001. On that day, a flotilla of boats ranging from commercial ferries to private craft plied back Geor ge & Swede Hosts Open Hou se in N. Y. …34
Table of Contents ............4 Truck & Trailer Section .... ..................................61-67 Crushing, Screening & Recycling Section ....71-93 Attachment Section .......... ..............................109-115 Parts Section ..............116 Auction Section ..122-136 Business Calendar ......130 Advertisers Index ........134
and forth, evacuating an estimated 60,000 people from New York City across the Hudson River to safety. The Weehawken 9/11 memorial will be constructed in Port Imperial near the former site of the ferry terminal, a waterfront location that is part of a stretch of Hudson County shoreline now dedicated to the tragedy. Short Hills, N.J., real estate developer and
management company Roseland Property Company is overseeing construction of the memorial and also covering its cost. “It is an honor and a privilege for Roseland Property Company to join in a public/private partnership with the township of Weehawken in see MEMORIAL page 22
Construction Pa. Bridges Plagued With Many Spending Up Problems; Some May Be Closed During June
By Kevin Begos ASSOCIATED PRESS
OAKMONT, Pa. (AP) Thousands of bridges are rusting, creaking and wearing out in Pennsylvania, but the flow of money to repair them is dwindling. And like a homeowner who puts off fixing a leaky roof, the state’s delaying repairs won’t make things easier over time. “We’re getting more and more bridges that are deteriorating,” said Scott Christie, Pennsylvania DOT’s deputy secretary for Highway Administration.
The price tag for all the needed repairs: about $8.7 billion, according to PennDOT. The future budget for repairs, with no new funding? About $600 million a year. That means that at projected funding and maintenance levels, the number of structurally deficient bridges in the state will rise, Christie told The Associated Press. If that happens, drivers may see the bridge problem as more than just a statistic. “Instead to keeping the bridges open, we’ll have to close them,” Christie said. A national study released earlier this year by see BRIDGES page 24
Construction spending edged up 0.2 percent in June as increases in private nonresidential construction outweighed continuing declines in private residential and public construction spending, the Associated General Contractors of America reported in an analysis of new Census Bureau data. The construction trade association’s chief economist, Ken Simonson, predicted further imbalances in spending, with further cuts in public spending likely to offset most or all of see SPENDING page 123