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September 18 2010 Vol. XVII • No. 19
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Inside
Widening of I35W Provides Needed Relief
Mike Slinger Named OEDA Director...25
Photo courtesy NYC Environmental Protection
Inside the concrete tunnel forms
Digging Deep to Keep the Water Flowing Through NYC
Bridge Project Under Way in Ohio...27
By Giles Lambertson CEG CORRESPONDENT
Allied Promotes Slavens to Director of Sales...28
Table of Contents ............4
A Grove crane raises one of the first noise walls into position early on in the project. Workers constructed thousands of square yards of noise and retaining walls during the three-year project.
Truck & Trailer Section .... ..................................33-39
By Dick Rohland
Parts ..............................42
After nearly three years of intense, heavyduty road work, thousands of daily motorists are now enjoying some relief from construction congestion through South Minneapolis and its neighboring suburb Richfield. Road crews recently opened three of five new lanes along a 4 mi. (6.4 km) stretch of northbound I35W and TH62 Crosstown to traffic through the two cities. For daily commuters, truckers and travelers the new lanes are a sure and visible sign
Crushing, Screening & Recycling Section ....55-63 Auction Section ......68-79 Business Calendar ........75 Advertisers Index ..........78
CEG CORRESPONDENT
see CONGESTION page 16
It only required 40 years, but massive tunneling deep beneath New York City for a vital new water-carrying conduit is nearing completion. A whale-sized digging machine, some tough construction workers and megatons of concrete have done the job. The $6 billion dig — the city’s largest capital project ever — involves tunneling out miles of
bedrock and building a tube in the tunnel using millions of cubic feet of concrete so the city of 8.3 million people will have an insurance policy against failure of two older subterranean water lines. “This project represents one of the most significant investments in the future of the city’s drinking water system,” said Cas Holloway, the city’s environmental protection commissioner. His remarks came in May at the conclusion of the see TUNNEL page 31
Obama Promotes $50B Jobs Plan By Darlene Superville
ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITER
MILWAUKEE (AP) President Barack Obama rolled out a long-term jobs program Sept. 6 that would exceed $50 billion to rebuild roads, railways and runways, and coupled it with a blunt campaign-season assault on Republicans for causing Americans’ hard economic times. Republican leaders instantly assailed
Obama’s proposal as an ineffective one that would simply raise already excessive federal spending. Many congressional Democrats also are likely to be reluctant to boost expenditures and increase federal deficits just weeks before elections that will determine control of Congress. A spokesman of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, Jim Manley, cautioned, “If we are going to get anything done, Republican coopersee PLAN page 48