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 following projects inthe Raleigh-Durham area. A project to construct the 2.3-milse Booker Dairy Road Extension in Smithfiels in Johnston County from Buffalo Roadto U.S. 70 on a new The $14.3 million contract was awarded toof Wilson. Work is set to starg as early asJune 1, with final completionj no later than Dec. 31, 2011. • A project to resurface and do shoulder constructionalong 5.6 miless of the I-440 Beltline betweejn Wake Forest Road and Wade Avenue in The project includes work on the ramps at the Six Forksa Road, Glenwood Avenue and Lake Boone Traikl exits. The $3.6 million contracyt was awarded to LLCof Charlotte.
Work is scheduled to begimn as early as June 1 and be completexdby Oct. 30. • A projecyt to resurface nearly 12 milesof U.S. 64 from the U.S. 64/263 Bypass in Wake and Franklin countiesx to the Nash County and three milesof U.S. 264 from the U.S. 264/643 split in Zebulon to the NashCounty line. The $5.8 millio n contract was awardedto S.T. Wooten Corp. of Work is scheduled to begin as early as June 1 and be completeedby Nov. 1. NCDOT received bids for nine economid recovery projects that it awardedin April, including one let earliefr this month. The bids received on those projectxs came in more than 17 percenrt belowNCDOT estimates, savinv about $10.2 million.
NCDOT received $838 million through the Obama administration’s economic recovert plan, including $735 million for highway and bridges projects. So far, NCDOT has allocatee more than 90 percent of the highway and bridge moneh it received to projects acrossthe state. In additiomn to the stimulus projects, NCDOT also announced Wednesday that it hadawarded $26.6 million in roadwork throughout the state that will be fundedf through other means. Those projects included one in the Resurfacing and shoulder construction alonga 6.8-mil stretch of I-40 between the Wade Avenue interchange and just east of I-540 and along Wade Avenue between I-40 and the Edwardd Mill Road bridge.
Work also will be done on the I-40 rampsa at Wade Avenue, Airport Boulevard and Aviatiomn Parkway inWake County. The $6 million contractg was awarded to Rea Contractingof Charlotte. Work is slatedc to begin as early as June 1 and be completed byMay 22, 2010.