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The entire project is slated to last 28 months, or until the middle of August 2015.
Pa. Transportation Planners Face Funding Decision
Third-Generation Firm Keeps Values at the Forefronts…8
By Mark Scolforo ASSOCIATED PRESS
VDOT photo
Harter Donates Kubota RTV900 for Rescue Ops…14
I-95 Corridor Update Aims to Cure Traffic Headaches By Eric Olson CEG CORRESPONDENT
Groff Customers Visit Tomahawk…28
Table of Contents ................4 Paving Section..............57-71 Underground Utility, Trenchers & Trench Boxes Section ..........................75-82
Anyone who has ever had to drive into or out of Washington, D.C., in particular along the I-95 corridor, has experienced the almost mind-numbing traffic backups and delays common to the area. Bumper-to-bumper traffic can be found at every compass point in and around the city, particularly on weekdays.
In order to improve the situation, albeit to a small degree, the Virginia Department of Transportation has begun working on a 7-mi. (11.3 km) stretch of I-95 in Prince William County, approximately 25 mi. (40.2 km) south of the nation’s capital. Work began in April on a project designed to construct auxiliary lanes and widen the shoulders of the interstate, both northbound
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) The 127-page transportation legislation signed into law culminated years of planning and presents an imposing set of challenges for Pennsylvania’s transportation planners. The law will ramp up over five years to raise at least an extra $2.3 billion annually — or about 40 percent more — to build and repair roads and bridges and underwrite mass transit systems. It should go a long way toward modernizing transportation infrastructure across the state. It also created programs and changed rules regarding how major public works projects are planned and executed in the nation’s sixth most populous state. PennDOT must decide if it wants to borrow money early on. Additionally, planners debating how to use the new money will have to balance the competing demands of aging infrastructure with economic development and congestion. There seems to be consensus that Pennsylvania has more than enough needs to exhaust the billions of dollars see FUNDS page 104
see I-95 page 108
Wood’s CRW Poised to Expand to Pa. in 2014
Parts Section ..................126 Auction Section ......130-141 Business Calendar ..........136 Advertisers Index ............142
Link-Belt Construction Equipment has announced that New England-based Wood’s CRW Corp. will expand its coverage into eastern Pennsylvania. Effective Jan. 1, 2014, Wood’s CRW Corp. will purchase assets and retain employees
located at the former Link-Belt Mid-Atlantic Carlisle, Pa., branch. Wood’s CRW Corp. is a top five sales volume distributor of LinkBelt, with a territory that covers New England and most of New see WOOD’S page 124
New England-based Wood’s CRW Corp. will expand its coverage into eastern Pennsylvania.