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PennDOT Tackles Quadruple County Project Brayman used a Caterpillar 315B excavator to remove the bridge deck.
By Jennifer Rupp CEG CORRESPONDENT
The Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) is taking on one of its largest project ever, spanning Crews used a JLG lift to access the north towers during the bridge jacking operation.
SANY America Partners Wi th Binder Machinery…8
Woods C RW Celebrates 50 Years in Business…34
four counties and two districts. The Freeport Bridge crosses over the Allegheny River at a point where Allegheny, Butler, Armstrong and Westmoreland counties meet. The bridge, also known as the Donald R. Lobaugh Bridge, was constructed in 1965 to take PA Route 356 traffic over the Allegheny River and to connect the Freeport Borough area to Westmoreland County. The bridge and its approaches are a vital link between Butler and Armstrong Counties to the north and west, with Westmoreland County to the south and east. The project includes the rehabilitation of the Freeport Bridge over the Allegheny River and the reconstruction of the northern bridge approach. Work began in see FREEPORT page 103
Pa. Towns Contend With Gas Pipeline Proposals By Janice Crompton Hyundai Takes Wraps Off New Headqu arter s…40
Table of Contents.........4 Paving Section ............47-59 Underground Utility, Trenchers & Trench Boxes Section..........................63-67 Parts Section ..................103 Business Calendar ..........107 Auction Section …Starts at 109 Advertisers Index............118
PITTSBURGH POST-GAZETTE
Although several natural gas pipeline projects have traversed southern parts of the county, along with neighboring Greene County, for several years, the northern fringes have seen little activity. Until now. “We discussed it and we’re working on a cou-
PITTSBURGH (AP) A number of municipalities in Washington County have spent the past few months crafting regulations for Marcellus Shale gas well drilling pads, compressor stations, processing plants and even employee work trailers. But pipelines? Not so much. Two of those municipalities in the northern portion of the county, Peters and Union, now find themselves scrambling to brace for proposed pipeline projects on their No matter how you slice it, the outlook for the doorsteps. 2012 transportation construction market is mixed, “I don’t think we thought of it,” the American Road & Transportation Builders said Peters Manager Michael Association’s (ARTBA) senior economist said Dec. Silvestri about why township offi12 in releasing her annual economic forecast during cials failed to consider pipelines a 90-minute webinar for Wall Street analysts and when council approved a gas well construction industry executives. drilling ordinance in August.
ple of ordinances to set standards for this activity,” said Union supervisor Larry Spahr, who found the issue placed squarely in his lap during a supervisor’s meeting Dec. 1. He and other officials from Peters and Union are now considering new ordinances governing see PIPELINE page 109
ARTBA Says 2012 Transportation Construction Market Outlook Mixed “There is good news and bad news for 2012 depending on the mode of transportation,” according to ARTBA’s Alison Premo Black. First the bad news: the highway and bridge construction market is expected to contract six percent, to $72.6 billion from an estimated $77 billion in see FORECAST page 111