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Features - May 2006

Tracking Light Rail
Less Than 1,000 Days Until Completion


Progress is being made on nearly every facet of light rail construction throughout the Phoenix area as crews from multiple contractors descend on some of the Valley's most-used arterials. The 20-mile initial route will connect central Phoenix with the East Valley, with a planned completion in late 2008.
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Light Span

Unique Bridge Over Tempe Town Lake
A unique triangular-shaped steel truss bridge over Tempe Town Lake, Ariz., that required six months of custom steel fabrication and welding, is now nearing completion.
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Las Vegas Paving

Tackles Nevada's Biggest Road Job Ever
Las Vegas Paving Corp., one of the Nevada's biggest highway contractors, is currently tackling Nevada's biggest road job: A $94.8 million, 2-mi. widening of U.S. Highway 95 in northwest Las Vegas.
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U.S. 95 Widening Nears Completion

$540 million, nine-mile-long U.S. 95 widening project
The $540 million, nine-mile-long U.S. 95 widening project in northwest Las Vegas is nearing completion. The seven-year, multi-phase undertaking will increase freeway capacity to ten-lanes from Martin Luther King to Rainbow Boulevards, and to six lanes from Rainbow Boulevard to Craig Road.
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Looping Las Vegas

Ambitious Beltway Project Nears Completion
The Las Vegas Beltway, Clark County's biggest, most ambitious road project ever, should be finished 12 years ahead of the original schedule.
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Road to the Future

University Boulevard Extension
The University Boulevard Extension project is only two miles long, but within that short stretch is a massive amount of work: soil excavation, several bridge spans and multiple utility lines, all while staying out of the way of Albuquerque's major international airport.
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Nimble Footwork

Children's Hospital Expansion Steps Forward
Towering by sheer mass over nearby buildings of the University of New Mexico in Albuquerque, the steel framework of the $238 million UNM Children's Hospital and Critical Care Pavilion addition for children is now complete.
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Kino Public Health Center Finally Rises

A New $23 Million Facility For Tucson
TIt has taken years, but the Kino Public Health Center in Tucson is finally on its way to being completed.
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