Northeast #22, 2010

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October 27 2010

Vol. XLVIII • No. 22

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IEW Changes With Changing Times…8

Rockbusters Holds Biggest Show Yet…46

ARiver Runs Under It…

Hudson River Port Delivers Big for Industry The shortest distance between two points is often said to be a straight line. But in some cases, the easiest — and only — way to get from Point A to Point B is via the Hudson River. Located 10 mi. south of Albany, N.Y., and 110 mi. north of New York City, with easy access to New Jersey and Massachusetts, the Port of Coeymans has recently seen an upsurge in demand from the construction industry. The port, a 125-acre marine terminal with 3,300 ft. (1,005 m) of water frontage, offers dock capability for ships up to 750 ft. (228 m) with a draft of 32 ft. (9.7 m). Its 300-ton (272 t) Link-Belt crane offers heavy lift capacity to load and unload ships and barges

Cooling towers for the Astoria II generating station loaded on barges for their journey.

see HUDSON page 32

N.J. Gov. Rethinking Rail Tunnel Cancellation By Angela Delli Santi

ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER Hunyady Holds Liquidation Sale in Md. …120

Table of Contents ........4 Paving Section......51-65 Trailers Section ....69-81 Parts Section ............110 Auction Section117-132 Business Calendar....118 Advertisers Index ....130

TRENTON, N.J. (AP) Under pressure from the Obama administration, Republican Gov. Chris Christie agreed Oct. 8 to rethink his decision to cancel construction of a $9 billion rail tunnel connecting New Jersey and New York City. Christie, a rising star in the GOP with a reputation as a fearless protector of the taxpayers’ money, announced on Oct. 7 that he was pulling the plug on the project because of runaway costs — a decision that led to an outcry from Democrats who said it would cost the state thousands of badly needed construction jobs and cripple New Jersey’s longterm economy. But after meeting for nearly an hour Oct. 8 with U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood, the governor agreed to listen to ideas for pressing ahead with the project, known as ARC, for Access to the Region’s Core. It is the biggest public transit project

under way in the nation. “The fact that the ARC project is not financially viable and is expected to dramatically exceed its current budget remains unchanged,”

Christie said in a statement. He added, though, that LaHood “presented several options to potentially salvage a trans-Hudson tunnel project.” see TUNNEL page 36

Obama Touts $50B, Six-Year Transportation Program Proposal WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama on Oct. 11 lobbied for Republican support from Capitol Hill for a burst of spending on transportation projects, calling his proposal a jobs creator for the middle class and an overdue investment in the country’s foundation. “There’s no reason why we can’t do this,” Obama said in a brief Rose Garden event. “There’s no reason why the world’s best infrastructure should lie beyond our borders. This is America. We’ve always had the best infrastruc-

ture ... All we need is the political will.” Obama is proposing a $50 billion plan as an initial step toward a six-year program of transportation programs. It calls for building, fixing or maintaining thousands of miles of roads, rail lines and airport runways, along with installing a new air navigation system to reduce travel delays, and other projects. The president unveiled the idea over Labor Day. The event amounted to another chance to see PROPOSAL page 24


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