News & Views: June 28, 2012

POLITICIANS CALL FOR FASTER REPLACEMENT OF CRUMBLING ASHFORD AVENUE BRIDGE
The $20-million effort to replace the county-owned, four-lane span connecting Ardsley and Dobbs Ferry isn’t slated to start until March 2015, according to the current construction timetable. Westchester County Legislator MaryJane Shimsky, D-Greenburgh, said she hoped a few months can be shaved from various steps of the planning and approval process.
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OHIO HOPES TO MONETIZE BRIDGES, ROADS, REST STOPS
Ohio is trying to become the first state to sell road and bridge naming rights and commercialize rest stops, as Republican Gov. John Kasich addresses a $1.6 billion transportation funding shortfall.

The Ohio Transportation Department plans to find more money in highway facilities, including interchanges and rest-stop toilets and snack machines, to produce as much as $27 million a year in revenue and savings. The agency also wants to add restaurants, gas stations and hotels at highway pull-offs.
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BRIDGE INDUSTRY CONFERENCE SHOWCASES MISSOURI INNOVATIONS
The so-called Safe & Sound program made Missouri the featured state at this year's International Bridge Conference, held on June 11-13 in Pittsburgh. The highlight of the program is a design-build contract to replace 554 bridges, typically 147 ft long, 24 ft wide, 60 years old and in rural areas, said Harry Koenigs, area manager for KCU, a joint venture of Kiewit Infrastructure Group, Traylor Bros. and United Contractors, including HNTB and the LPA Group as designers.
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