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May 15, 2013 • Vol. XXV • No. 10 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910
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The north end zone addition will create a total of 8,815 new seats.
By Chris Kardish
Mathis Survives By Staying Local…8
Cat Helps Track Great Whit e Shark…18
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Mississippi State Expands Field After Sold Out Games By Cindy Riley CEG CORRESPONDENT
Meeki ns Hold s Annual Spr ing Sal e…102
Table of Contents ................4 Paving Section ............40-53 Attachments Section ..57-81 Parts Section ................82-83 Auction Section ........96-107 Business Calendar ..........100 Advertisers Index............106
Turnpikes Add Trouble for McCrory’s Bill
Athletes aren’t the only people breaking records on the Mississippi State football field. Bulldog fans have set attendance records in recent years, having sold out 16 consecutive games at the stadium. Mississippi State has sold out of football season tickets for the past three
years. As a result, the fans and players will enjoy a new renovated stadium. Construction teams in Starkville are renovating part of Mississippi State University’s football stadium, allowing more fans to fill the stands on game day. Crews are building a media staging area for television broadcast, with work on the $75 million dollar project expected to be comsee MSU page 30
Obama Taps Charlotte Mayor to Run Transportation Dept. By Julie Pace AP WHITE HOUSE CORRESPONDENT
WASHINGTON (AP) President Barack Obama is nominating Charlotte, N.C., Mayor Anthony Foxx to run the Transportation Department, a White House official said. The White House official said that as mayor, Foxx has experience in boosting transit infrastructure and using those projects to create jobs.
He oversaw a program to create an electric tram service to Charlotte, an expansion of a light rail system and the opening of a third runway at the city’s airport. Foxx was first elected Charlotte mayor in 2009. Foxx would replace outgoing Secretary Ray LaHood, one of the few Republicans serving in the Democratic administration. (This story also can be found on Construction Equipment Guide’s Web site at www.constructionequipmentguide.com.)
RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) Some North Carolina lawmakers say the governor’s transportation overhaul will be a tougher sell after a House committee added several turnpike projects to the bill May 2. The House Finance Committee added an amendment to Gov. Pat McCrory’s plan that would authorize the Cape Fear Skyway, the Garden Parkway and the Mid-Currituck Bridge. The projects have divided lawmakers in the House and Senate, which has already tried to return them to the Department of Transportation to compete with other projects based on firm data that supports their potential impact. McCrory supported the Senate’s move. Rep. Bill Brawley, R-Mecklenburg and the bill’s lead sponsor, said the projects were originally removed because they had not yet been bonded and should go through the new formula for prioritization that McCrory’s plan will create. The plan establishes three tiers of projects with the goal of directing more money toward construction projects that can justify their potential impact. Currently, funding is divided evenly among the state’s 14 Department of Transportation divisions. Statewide and regional projects ranked mostly by data would receive 80 percent of transportation funding over the next 10 years. The remaining 20 percent would be shared equally among the state’s 14 transportation divisions based on data and local priorities. The exact formulas that will be used to prioritize projects still need to be worked out by the transportation agency, which would be required under the bill to begin reporting to the General Assembly in August. Rep. Paul Tine, D-Dare, said he doesn’t want to count on those formulas to advance a see TURNPIKE page 30