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| | | | | | Monday, March 15, 2010 | 8:40:52 PM
NJTA Announces Plans for 2010 Project Bids
Author: Mary Reed, CEG CORRESPONDENT
As part of its 10 Year Capital Investment Program, the New Jersey Turnpike Authority (NJTA) recently announced more than 50 construction projects totaling $2,080,000,000 are to be put out to bid in 2010.
Of a total of $7 billion to be spent during the decade-long plan, widening and bridge improvement projects dominate at $2,900,000,000 and $1,775,000,000, respectively, followed by improvements to interchanges ($960,000,000), roadways ($790,000,000), and Turnpike facilities ($575,000,000).
In 2010 the Turnpike Authority will be awarding contracts as follows:
• Widening Projects: $1,500,000,00
• Bridge Improvements: $355,000,000
•Interchange Improvements: $120,000,000
• Roadway Improvements: $65,000,000
• Facility Improvements: $40,000,000
The Turnpike is being widened between Interchanges 6 to 9, as is the Garden State Parkway from Milepost 48 to Milepost 63.
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MassHighway, SPS New England Start Work on Freetown’s Route 24
MassHighway and general contractor SPS New England Inc., Salisbury, Mass., are taking soil samples and preparing to hit the ground running to improve a busy highway that serves as a north-south lifeline from Boston to the South Shore.
Click to Read More | MassHighway, SPS New England Start Work on Freetown’s Route 24
Delaware Children’s Museum Takes Shape on Riverfront
WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) The Delaware Children’s Museum is steeling itself for its April 25th opening.
And it’s a lot of steel.
Walk into what used to be the cavernous space inhabited by Kahunaville, and you’ll find a forest of gleaming steel studs marking off hallways, rooms and doors for what will be a lobby, offices, studio and six exhibits designed to get kids moving and thinking, all while having fun.
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JFK Runway Closure Expected to Rattle Nerves, Wallets
NEW YORK (AP) The main runway at New York’s John F. Kennedy International will be closed for four months starting March 1. Millions of travelers will experience delays, including some not flying anywhere near the Big Apple.
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Company Scales Back Western N.Y. Headquarters Plan
ROCHESTER, N.Y. (AP) A telecommunications company is scaling back its plan to build a new headquarters in downtown Rochester.
Officials at Fairport-based Paetec Holding Corp. said Feb. 2 that the company has dropped plans for a new nine-story building at Midtown Plaza.
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W. Pa. Police Find Huge Cache of Stolen Tools
BETHEL PARK, Pa. (AP) Police in western Pennsylvania said a search of the home of a man charged with burglary turned up enough stolen items to fill a tractor-trailer.
Police in Bethel Park said they arrested Andrew McQuiston on March 5 while he was leaving a house that had been burglarized.
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CEG Special Feature Report
Managing Key to a Firm’s Emergence From a Recession
Author: Giles Lambertson
(Editor’s note: This article is the final installment in a series on the nation’s and world’s current economic conditions. Over the past several weeks, Construction Equipment Guide (CEG) interviewed experts in economics and business, and even psychology, and reported on how the industry veterans are coping, and in some instances, succeeding in this downturn.
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This Month in Profile Publications - New York State's exclusive magazine for Municipal Equipment
Superintendent of Highways Gary Blackburn and the Town of Ridgeway
Ask just about any highway superintendent what they like best about their job and what they like least, and the answer to both usually is, “the people.” After 24 years in the highway barn in Ridgeway, Superintendent Gary Blackburn believes that the best — his career highlight — is yet to come.
He is positively looking forward to the four-month period when he gets to shadow the person who takes over his job once he officially retires at year’s end.