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June 18, 2016 • Vol. XX • No. 13 • 470 Maryland Drive • Ft. Washington, PA 19034 • 215-885-2900 • Toll Free 800-523-2200 • Fax 215-885-2910
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Work Zone Safety Measures Need Improvement
The reconstruction, funded with state and local money, has crews working between Portage Lake Lift Bridge and Lincoln Drive. Project funding includes more than $5 million from MDOT’s Road Rehabilitation & Reconstruction Fund; $1 million from the city of Hancock for water main and sanitary sewer repairs; and more than $1 million in MDOT Transportation Alternative Program funds for streetscape items.
Thirty-nine percent of highway contractors reported that motor vehicles had crashed into their construction work zones during the past year, according to the results of a new highway work zone study conducted by the Associated General Contractors of America. Association officials urged summer travel motorists to stay alert while driving through work zones, noting that highway workers are in danger and drivers and passengers face an even higher risk of being hurt or killed in work zone crashes. “Any time your job site is just a few feet away from fast moving traffic, danger is never far away,” said Jeff DiStefano, the vice chairman of Harrison & Burrows Bridge Constructors in Glenmont, N.Y., and chairman of the association’s Highway and Transportation Division. “The easiest way to improve work zone safety is to get motorists to slow down and pay attention.” DiStefano said that 44 percent of contractors who reported work zone crashes on their projects said that motor vehicle operators or passengers were injured, and 12 percent of those crashes involved a driver or passenger fatality. Highway work zone crashes also pose a significant risk for construction workers, DiStefano noted. He said 18 percent of work zone crashes injure construction
see HEBERT page 104
see SAFETY page 100
McCann Industries Hosts Open House…10
The Hebert Construction Co. is reconstructing a portion of U.S. 41 (Reservation and Quincy streets) in the city of Hancock (Houghton County) in northern Michigan for the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT).
GeoShack Conducts Series of Roadshow Events…14
Firm Reconstructs Portion of U.S. 41 in Hancock, Mich. By Irwin Rapoport CEG CORRESPONDENT
Firm Navigates Changing Times With Doosan…16
Table of Contents ................4 Truck & Trailer Section ........ ......................................29-41 Attachment & Parts Section ......................................57-63
The Hebert Construction Co. is reconstructing a portion of U.S. 41 (Reservation and Quincy streets) in the city of Hancock (Houghton County) in northern Michigan for the Michigan Department of Transportation (MDOT). The $7.1 million Hancock Streetscape Project, which began on May 2 will be completed in July 2017.
Communities Seek $9.3B in Transportation Funding DOT Receives 585 Applications for 2016 TIGER Grant Program U.S. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx
from communities of all sizes, with 337 appli-
said Foxx. “As we have seen year after year,
Generating Economic Recovery (TIGER) grant
rural communities. The high level of interest
fund through TIGER, demonstrating the need
across the country totaling $9.3 billion in
tion investment nationwide. “Communities across the country know that if we want a strong, multimodal transportation system that will meet our needs in the future, we need to make meaningful investments today,”
portation funding.” Like the first seven rounds, 2016 TIGER discretionary grants will fund capital investments in surface transportation infrastructure and will
Recycling Section ........75-95 announced that the Transportation Investment cations coming from urban areas and 248 from there are far more worthy projects than we can Business Calendar ............96 program has received 585 applications from underscores the continued need for transporta- for a serious, long-term investment in transAuction Section ......100-107 requested funding — more than 18 times the Advertisers Index ............106
$500 million that will be awarded. Now in its eighth year, the TIGER program has continued to attract overwhelming demand
see TIGER page 100