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Indiana Road Repairs Washington Stay on the Fast Track Monument Gets Walsh Construction replaces the bridge at I-74/Crawfordsville Rd.
$7.5M Repairs By Brett Zongker ASSOCIATED PRESS
Street interchange. The project also involves rebuilding four over-passing bridges and constructing six major interchanges — one with 10 ramps. Accelerate 465 is a response to increased traffic demands and safety requirements on this segment of I-465. This $423 million project was needed to expand transportation
WASHINGTON (AP) Despite a billionaire history buff’s pledge of $7.5 million to speed up repairs on the Washington Monument, officials say the complex work could last until August 2013, or two years after the landmark was damaged by an earthquake. Businessman David Rubenstein said he was inspired to help fund the repairs to the 555-ft. (170 m) obelisk when it became clear how severely damaged it was by a 5.8-magnitude earthquake Aug. 23. The National Park Service and nonprofit Trust for the National Mall announced Rubenstein’s gift Jan. 19. It is the largest gift to the nonprofit group that is working to restore the mall. The repair job will be no easy task, though. A design process is under way to determine how to do the work, and federal officials hope to award a contract by August to begin construction. From there it will take about a year, according to the best estimates. The repairs may involve building huge scaffolding around the monument, as was the case during a restoration project from 1999 to 2001. Officials said they do not yet know whether scaffolding will be nec-
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Table of Contents ........ 4 Excavators & Attachment Section ..............................35-59 Paving Section .... 69-79
Accelerate 465 is an Indiana Department of Transportation (INDOT) project to reconstruct an 11-mi. (17.7 km) corridor of Interstate 465 on the west side of Indianapolis between State Road 67/Kentucky Avenue to north of the 56th
Crumbling Minn. Capitol Reaches ‘Tipping Point’ By Alexandra Tempus ASSOCIATED PRESS
Auction Section ....86-99 Business Calendar ......97 Advertisers Index ......98
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) The foot-tall chunk of marble sitting in a state administrative office once was part of the Minnesota Capitol’s ornamental scrollwork, one small detail on architect Cass Gilbert’s century-old jewel. Now, it’s mainly a reminder of this
aging building’s many deferred needs. Time has eroded the marble’s fine detail to the point that it’s barely visible. It was plucked off the building by hand during a recent inspection of the Capitol exterior, and conservators say it’s just a small example of $241 million in urgently needed restoration work that will only grow more expensive with time. “They’re big projects, they’re scary proj-
ects, they’re inconvenient projects,” said David Hart, a Utah-based consultant to the Minnesota State Capitol Preservation Commission. “But they’re projects that have to happen. It’s time.” The spending would address a lack of fresh air circulation, outdated plumbing and tangled electrical wiring so systematic that only a see CAPITOL page 68