TRANSPORTATION
Southern California celebrated the completion of its rail transit segment, thanks to the July 2003 on-time opening of the 13.7-mi.-long Metro Gold Line rail project connecting Los Angeles to Pasadena. The $178 million design-build project required working in an extremely narrow corridor and involved building a pedestrian bridge, stations, at-grade crossings, seismic retrofits, and several cut-and-cover tunnels.
Gilbert Western Corp. took a proactive approach to working with local businesses on this project to extend the North-South Light Rail. By partnering with the Utah Transit Authority, the project team was able to accelerate the schedule and reach substantial completion 10 months early, thereby mitigating impacts to the business community.
The Union Station Transit Improvement Project is transforming Denver's historic Union Station into a regional multi-modal transportation hub. The 19.5 acre, $368 million project is located in downtown Denver and includes an underground bus terminal (23 FT below grade) containing 22 bus slips, 40,000 square-foot underground passenger concourse, eight-track commuter rail station and the relocation of the existing light rail station.
The $7.2 million Riverside Station project was awarded to rehabilitate an irrigation canal through a live rail corridor. In October 1998, three months ahead of schedule, Kiewit Pacific Co. completed constructing a box culvert, passenger platform, two steel structural towers with elevators and a steel pedestrian bridge over three mainline tracks.
Kiewit Pacific Co. was awarded an $18.5 million project to improve the San Gabriel Subdivision of the Metrolink track. Crews widened three bridges, constructed a new station, lengthened two other stations, added a second platform on a fourth station and extended two box culverts.
Making it possible for trains to be shifted to and from the newly completed Stuart Mesa maintenance facilities, Kiewit Pacific Co. installed two miles of secondary mainline track. The $3.7 million project also included the construction of a high speed turnout - the first 90 mph turnout in North America.
Line Section 1 is the first Light Rail Transit system in Arizona. Though delivered by the traditional hard-bid method, Kiewit Western Co., a subsidiary of Kiewit Corporation, had a large hand in redesigning the project and resequencing tasks after encountering more than 600 unknown obstructions in approximately 14 months of work.
For more than three decades, Peter Kiewit Sons Co. has been constructing projects for the Vancouver Skytrain light rail system. Most recently, crews constructed several portions of guideway and elevated guidway on the Lougheed, Front Street and Grandview segments.
A best-value selection process was used to select a Kiewit-led team to construct South Dakota's first design-build highway project. A 15-month construction window was established to minimize disruption on this 6.9-mi. loop of I-229. Despite one of the harshest winters in Sioux Falls' history, Kiewit finished 31 days ahead of schedule.
This $58 million project to reconstruct a 47-mi.-long rail line between San Francisco and San Jose was completed in May 2001. Crews worked 24-hour shifts between Friday evenings and Monday mornings to minimize disruptions to the 68 daily trains.
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