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Published Nationally ® February 18 2018 Vol. IX • No. 4
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Bulldozers, Cranes Put Pieces Together in Legoland...15
Looking Back: Brief History of Excavators...54
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It’s Finally Here: Infrastructure Plan Details The Trump Administration announced the longanticipated details of his infrastructure plan Feb. 12. The $200 billion proposal promises to prompt a $1.5 trillion investment throughout the next decade, NBC News reported. “We have to rebuild our infrastructure,” said President Trump. “We’re trying to fix roads and bridges that are falling down.” The Details Highlights of the plan include: • $100 billion in incentives: To gain access to these federal dollars, local and state governments will have to pull together significant funds or form partnerships with private companies. The federal government will decide where to allocate the funds based on a list of criteria, the most prominent of which being the amount of outside money a project already has. see INFRASTRUCTURE page 22
Infrastructure projects across the United States could see a big boost as a result of the recently unveiled Trump Administration infrastructure proposal.
Caltrans Kicks Off $1.9B I-405 Widening Project By Chuck Harvey CEG CORRESPONDENT Alex Lyon & Son Celebrates 25th Year at Fla. Auctions...72
Table of Contents ................4 California Section ........15-20 Parts Section ....................24 Excavator Section ........27-57 Paving Section ............59-67 Business Calendar.............68 Auction Section............71-75 Advertisers Index ..............74
Orange County Transportation Authority and Caltrans are heading an effort to reduce congestion on a busy section of Interstate 405 — also known as the San Diego Freeway — by widening 16 mi. of the 72.41-mi. freeway from state Route 73 in Costa Mesa to Interstate 605 near Seal Beach, Los Alamitos and the Los Angeles County line. The $1.9 billion project includes adding one regular lane in each direction from Euclid Street in Fountain Valley to I-605. An express lane will be built in each direction for the full 16-mi. stretch. Federal, state and county transportation officials and guests attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the project on Jan. 26. Most of the initial work will be in preparation for grading. “Heavy construction on the proj-
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Federal, state and county transportation officials and guests attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the project on Jan. 26.
ect will begin this summer,” said Joel Zlotnik, OCTA media relations officer. “This is a designbuild project and the design was completed last year.” Zlotnic described the project as a huge undertaking. It is a five-year project that is scheduled to conclude sometime in 2023. The existing carpool lanes (one in each direction) will become part
of the express lanes, so the section of freeway will have two express lanes heading north or south. The express lanes will incorporate new freeway connectors that opened in 2014. In addition to widening the freeway, crews will use new designs to improve I-405 Freeway entrances and exits. I-405 currently has four regular lanes and one carpool lane
each way in the project area. When work concludes, the freeway will have five regular lanes and two express lanes in each direction. Along with building new lanes, workers will replace 18 bridges plus widen others. They will reconfigure interchanges, build new sound walls and construct bike lanes and sidewalks. Project manager is Jeff Mills, program manager of OCTA. Contractor for the design-build project is OC 405 Partners. OC 405 Partners is a joint venture of OHL USA Inc. of Miami, Fla., and Astaldi Construction Corporation of Davie, Fla. Major subcontractors include Myers and Sons Construction of Sacramento and All American Asphalt of Corona, Calif. Because it is a design-build contract, work may be done simultaneously in multiple areas of the 16-mi. stretch. see CALTRANS page 18