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(10-19) 13:48 PDT CASTRO VALLEY -- Construction starts Friday to widen Interstate 238, one of the East Bay's worst bottlenecks. The $123 million, four-year project will bring Interstate 238 to three lanes in each direction and will also add merging lanes at the Interstate 880 connection, said Tess Lengyel, a spokeswoman for the Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority. The highway is a major freight path for trucks traveling between the Central Valley and the Bay Area and a commuter route for tens of thousands of workers. The construction work, which includes repaving, is expected to last until summer of 2010. Its widening is one of the largest projects funded by Alameda County's Measure B, a voter-approved half-cent sales tax that pays for transportation projects.
CASTRO VALLEY - Construction began today on a four-year, $121 million freeway-widening project aimed at reducing one of the worst traffic bottlenecks in the East Bay. The project calls for widening Interstate Highway 238, the two-mile freeway that connects Interstate Highway 580 and Interstate Highway 880, from four to six lanes with auxiliary lanes between on- and off-ramps. I-238 is a major freight truck corridor from the state's agricultural heartland in San Joaquin County to the port of Oakland as well as an important commute and recreational route. Alameda County Transportation Improvement Authority officials, who held a groundbreaking ceremony in the parking lot of Neighborhood Church in Castro Valley, said the improvements would provide additional capacity and enhancement safety by easing the movement of trucks crossing from I-580 to I-238.
Core Construction Florida won a contract to build 108 luxury condominiums at Clermont Yacht Club off Highway 27 on Masthead Boulevard overlooking Lake Minneola in Clermont. Edward A. Storey II, director of business development for the Orlando general contracting company, says construction is set to begin in November on the $26 million project. .
ASTANA. October 23, 2006. KAZINFORM. Construction and road rehabilitation were the uppermost subject of todays governmental sitting under the chairmanship of Kazakhstan Premier Daniyal Akhmetov. Transport and Communications Ministry reported on projects, envisaged by the republican road-transport industry for 2006-2012. It is planned to repair above 7 000 km of republican highways, renovate 412 bridges, and lay oblast roads up to 231 km for the period said. PM drew special attention to the road Astana-Shchuchinsk-Kokshetau under construction, defined as the countrys first autobahn, and Kazakhstan's section of the Western Europe-Russia-Kazakhstan-China transport corridors project. Thereat it is crucial adhering to international standards, PM stressed. Besides, PM raised an issue on providing large scale road constructions with high-grade human resources.
Edgar Belveal remained in critical condition at Via Christi Regional Medical Center, St. Francis Campus, Thursday, a day after he was burned and suffered smoke inhalation from a fire in his North Tobacco Road home.
"There really hasn't been much of a change," his youngest son, Ed, said Thursday afternoon from the hospital. "He's just up and down." Doctors continue to treat Belveal for his injuries, including burns and smoke inhalation, but his chances of survival are not great, his son said. Family members and friends have been able to visit, but communicating with the 76-year-old elevates his blood pressure and his heart rate. "It's actually creating problems," Ed Belveal said. Looking back Standing outside his home Wednesday afternoon, about 100 feet from the burned double-wide modular home, Robert Frank said his grandfather-in-law was like a cat.
A scar runs up her leg where a muscle was taken from a leg in one surgery. Metal plates and screws were inserted in one shattered arm, which she could barely move, then later removed because of complications. Besides multiple surgeries that led to more than $400,000 in hospital bills after the tornado hit her modular home on Katherine Street in Gallatin, Edwina Thompson lost the sight in her left eye. .
Mississippi Gulf Coast residents can now save a few thousand dollars on quick-built houses under a tax break swiftly approved by lawmakers and Gov. Haley Barbour on Thursday. In a special session that lasted less than two hours, both the House and Senate agreed on legislation that trims sales tax on modular houses from 7 percent to 3 percent, hoping to boost reconstruction in south Mississippi. Barbour signed Senate Bill 2001 into law shortly after 4 p.m. when legislative staff rushed paperwork to his office. "Hallelujah!" said Mack Harper, an Ocean Springs resident who is helping his mother buy a modular home. "I was wondering if they ever would see eye to eye." His mother, Peggy, lost her Gulfport home in Hurricane Katrina's floodwaters last year. He expects to save $6,000 on the three-bedroom, two-bath house.
NEWARK -- Newark said today it plans to appeal the $38.4 million settlement a federal jury awarded to a contracting firm that claimed it was wrongly fired from the citys reservoir project.
The jury last week awarded Donald M. Durkin Contracting $38.4 million, well above the citys $30 million annual budget. Durkin received $13.4 million for being fired improperly from working on the citys reservoir in February 2004 and an additional $25 million for violation of the firms constitutional rights.
In a separate claim, the jury ordered Newark to pay $567,000 to reservoir designer URS Corp. for unpaid bills and legal fees related to the reservoir.
The original project cost was $19 million.
City leaders met in an executive session at the end of tonights regularly scheduled council meeting to discuss their next steps.
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