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March 20, 2016 • Vol. IX • No. 6 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215/885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215/885-2910
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Budget Cuts Impact ODOT’s Eight-Year Plan
Cashman Provides Ri ght Machine for DL Stoy...10
Transportation involves building a new structure east of the existing bridge and then removing the existing 600-ft. (183 m)-long three-span steel deck truss bridge built in 1954, said Dustin Krugel, public information officer of ADOT Communications. Paid for with state and federal highway
Highlights of the Oklahoma Transportation Commission’s Monday, March 7 meeting include an update on cuts to the Oklahoma Department of Transportation’s budget following declaration of the state’s second revenue failure, commission approval of contracts for improvements to the Broken Arrow Expressway in Tulsa, U.S. 69 in Durant, U.S. 270 and U.S. 69 near McAlester and SH 270 near Harrah. Also approved was an engineering contract for an interstate corridor study in Cleveland County. Mike Patterson, executive director told commissioners that the two revenue failures for state fiscal year 2016 have reduced the Rebuilding Oklahoma and Driver Safety fund by nearly $31 million, impacting ODOT’s capital budget for highway projects. Even with additional federal transportation funding provided by the U.S. Congress in the FAST Act, cuts to the ROADS fund mean the agency will not be able to finance all of the projects scheduled to go to bid in the current year of its Eight-Year Construction Work Plan. “These revenue failures will have an impact on the Eight-Year Plan as some projects this year will be delayed and more in upcoming years will have to be delayed or postponed,” Patterson said. “We will continue to work with the state legislature on solutions to continue the state’s progress on transportation as lawmakers balance next year’s budget.”
see BRIDGE page 36
see BUDGET page 26
Arizona Department of Transportation photo
The $14.4 million bridge replacement project being overseen by the Arizona Department of Transportation involves building a new structure east of the existing bridge and then removing the existing 600-ft. (183 m)-long three-span steel deck truss bridge built in 1954. Crews Dismant le East Span of Bay B ridge...15
ADOT Spends $14.4M to Replace Hell Canyon Bridge By Lori Lovely CEG CORRESPONDENT
A History of Paving, Compaction, Milling...56
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Crossing Hell Canyon in the Arizona county of Yavapai will get a lot easier once the new, wider four-span steel-plate girder bridge is completed. The $14.4 million bridge replacement project being overseen by the Arizona Department of
California Section ........15-23 Business Calendar ............46 Asphalt, Concrete, Paving, Compaction & Milling Section ........................ 47-72 Auction Section ..........75-87 Advertisers Index ..............86
Alaskan Port Could Serve Many Purposes U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski (RAK) pressed Assistant Secretary of the Army for Civil Works, Jo-Ellen Darcy, on the need for a deep water port in the Arctic region. During an Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee hearing focusing on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers budget request,
Murkowski challenged officials for not funding the proposed port project in Nome, Alaska. Murkowski asked, “When the President was up in Alaska in September, he announced the need for a deep water port that would be north of Dutch Harbor. Given the President’s support for this, why
have we not included construction funding going forward in this next fiscal year?” Assistant Secretary Darcy responded, “Since that time and since the President’s visit, we are now going to look at further scoping of that study, because it was limited to just some economics
involving oil and gas, but there are other things that can be included in this. For instance, the Port of Nome may be considered a port of national significance in addition to the fact that it could possibly house the Coast Guard’s icebreaker in the future as well as other benefits that see ALASKA page 32