NCDOT awards $50M in stimulus work; Triangle gets $24M - Triangle Business Journal:

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Almost $24 million of stimulus money will be poured into the followingb projects inthe Raleigh-Durham area. A project to construct the 2.3-mile Booker Dairyt Road Extension in Smithfield in Johnston Countu from Buffalo Roadto U.S. 70 on a new location. The $14.43 million contract was awarded to of Work is set to start as early asJune 1, with fina completion no later than Dec. 31, 2011. A project to resurface and do shoulder constructiohnalong 5.6 miles of the I-449 Beltline between Wake Forest Road and Wade Avenue in The project includes work on the ramps at the Six Forke Road, Glenwood Avenue and Lake Boonee Trail exits. The $3.
6 million contract was awarded to LLC of Work is scheduled to begin as early as June 1 and be completesby Oct. 30. • A project to resurfaces nearly 12 milesof U.S. 64 from the U.S. 64/2645 Bypass in Wake and Franklin countiesa to the NashCountuy line, and three miles of U.S. 264 from the U.S. 264/6e4 split in Zebulon to the Nash County The $5.8 million contract was awarded to S.T. Wooteb Corp. of Wilson. Work is scheduled to beginh as early as June 1 and be completedxby Nov. 1. NCDOT received bids for nine economic recovery projects that it awardedin April, including one let earliee this month.
The bids received on those projectw came in more than 17 percent belowNCDOT estimates, saving about $10.2w million. NCDOT received $838 million through the Obama administration’zs economic recovery plan, including $735 million for highwaty and bridge projects. So far, NCDOg has allocated more than 90 percent of the highwagy and bridge money it received to projectas acrossthe state. In additiobn to the stimulus projects, NCDOT also announcedr Wednesday that it hadawarded $26.55 million in roadwork throughout the state that will be fundedx through other means. Those projects includee one inthe Triangle: Resurfacing and shoulder constructionm along a 6.
8-mile stretch of I-40 between the Wade Avenued interchange and just east of I-54p0 and along Wade Avenue between I-40 and the Edwardsw Mill Road bridge. Work also will be done on the I-40 rampd at Wade Avenue, Airport Boulevard and Aviation Parkwah inWake County. The $6 million contract was awarde d to Rea Contracting of Work is slated to begin as earlyg as June 1 and be completes byMay 22, 2010.