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March 19, 2017 • Vol. IX • No. 6 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215/885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215/885-2910
NDOT Oversees SR28 Shared Use Path Project By Cindy Riley CEG CORRESPONDENT
ODOT Responds to Rock Slide on Hwy. 101...8
Rain Wreaks Havoc on California Bridge...13
Ritchie Bros. Holds First Texas Sale of 2017...68
Table of Contents................ 4 California Section........ 13-20 Asphalt, Concrete, Paving, Compaction & Milling Section........................ 41-59
A major undertaking that will improve both user safety and access to popular recreational destinations in Nevada is taking shape, as construction continues on the SR 28 Shared Use Path Project. The Nevada Department of Transportation (NDOT) is overseeing the work, which also will help protect and preserve Lake Tahoe’s water quality. “This has been in the planning and environmental phases for well over a decade,” said NDOT senior project manager Nicholas Johnson. “Within the past year, the environmental process has finished, and the funding identified for construction, making it an opportune time to finalize design and begin construction.” The effort is part of an overall strategy to connect a shared use path from Nevada, state line to state line. “This is one of the first steps in implementing the greater master plan along the SR 28 corridor. The project will serve the local community in Tahoe, motorists, recreationalists, bicyclists, tourists and anyone visiting, traveling or using the recreational elements of Lake Tahoe.” SR 28 south of Lakeshore Drive, in Incline Village on Lake Tahoe’s
All work must be performed in a way as to not allow construction debris or pollutants into the lake.
east shore, runs alongside almost a dozen miles of undeveloped shoreline. The two-lane road is the only access route for more than one million recreationalists, and more than two million vehicles each year. The conditions along the SR 28 corridor are less than ideal for drivers and the roughly 2,000 pedestrians and bicyclists who share the existing travel lanes and narrow shoulsee NDOT page 22
Agency Plans to Award Border Wall Contracts by April By Elliot Spagat
Auction Section.......... 62-69 Business Calendar............ 65 Advertisers Index.............. 70
A major undertaking that will improve both user safety and access to popular recreational destinations in Nevada is taking shape, as construction continues on the SR 28 Shared Use Path Project.
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SAN DIEGO (AP) U.S. Customs and Border Protection said Feb. 24 that it plans to start awarding contracts by mid-April for President Donald Trump’s proposed border wall with Mexico, signaling that he is aggressively pursu-
ing plans to erect “a great wall’’ along the 2,000mile border. The agency said it will request bids on or around March 6 and that companies would have to submit “concept papers’’ to design and build prototypes by March 10, according to FedBizOpps.gov, a website for federal contractors. The field of candidates will be narrowed by
March 20, and finalists must submit offers with their proposed costs by March 24. The president told the Conservative Political Action Conference that construction will start “very soon’’ and is “way, way, way ahead of schedule.’’ The agency’s notice gave no details on where see WALL page 10