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Work Advances on Southwest Trail’s Successor By Zoie Clift CEG CORRESPONDENT
Work continues on the Arkansas-based portion of Highway 67, a north-south route that travels through a big chunk of mid-America, from the U.S.Mexico border to Sabula, Iowa. The project, which is slated to cost $24,816,799, includes constructing the embankment and bridges for 9.89 mi. (15.9 km) of the new location of Highway 67 between Highway 230 and Highway 63, south of Hoxie in Lawrence County. The project is being funded through the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) and is being overseen by the Arkansas State Highway and
RIPA Trusts Trench Shields for Big Jobs…14
NTEA Show Exceeds Expectations in Mo. …27
The bridge subcontractor has been the only one working on this project so far. It currently has six workers and a supervisor and has been working one shift Monday through Friday.
Anaconda Helps Keep Down Costs…33
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Transportation Department (AHTD). Six bridge structures will be constructed for a four lane divided freeway, and earthwork, erosion control and the building of minor drainage structures also are part of the job. The project will connect to a project currently under construction (which is not being funded via ARRA) that is widening Highway 67 to four lanes from Highway 226 northward to Highway 230 in Jackson County. Ultimately Highway 67 will be four-lanes from Hoxie southward to Newport. Both jobs are for drainage and structure work, not final surfacing. When the jobs are completed in 2012 both will still see AHTD page 20
Work on Alabama’s SR-9 Gets Under Way
Tenn. Contractor Speaks Out on ARRAStim Effect
Truck & Trailer Section .... Federal transportation and infra- 61.2 percent; and, ..................................227-29 structure investment is positively • transit contracts climbed 216 impacting the economy and sup-
percent.
porting job creation. A review of That was the message of Crushing, Screening & Recycling Section ....333-41 transportation contract awards from Tennessee highway contractor all sources, a leading indicator of
construction activity, from Parts Section ................442 future the 10 months before and after release of the recovery act’s transBusiness Calendar ........446 portation funds reveals: • highway
contract
Auction Section ......448-59 increased 19.4 percent; Advertisers Index ..........558
awards
• bridge contracts are up 14.6 percent; • airport awards have grown
Steve Wright, president of Charleston, Tenn.-based Wright Brothers Construction Company, a second-generation family-owned firm, in testimony March 26 to the House Transportation & Infrastructure Committee, at a progress report hearing on the American Recovery and see ARRA page 42
The area is more rolling terrain than hilly, and won’t require any drastic cuts.
By Kerry Lynn Kirby CEG CORRESPONDENT
Starting roadwork in winter in Alabama, you expect some rainy days. But since early December,
when crews began work to widen a stretch of Ala. 9/U.S. 331 south of Montgomery, there has been so much rain — and even some snow — that it has see ALABAMA page 16