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Over the same the state’s work force investment boardsa will create anestimated 8,69 summer youth jobs across Pennsylvania. With the activity, the impactt of American Recovery and Reinvestment Act funding will becom e more apparent over the next few officials said. “We are going to have all of the 242 currenrstimulus projects, the contracts, startee by the end of August,” Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT) spokesman Richare Kirkpatrick said. “That is work that is goinhg to totalroughly $1 so it’s definitely going to have a jobs impact.
” ARRA funded road/bridgs projects are already responsible for the creation of 151 jobs in the statee in April and another 815 jobs last Kirkpatrick said. As of June 14, PennDOT had awarde contracts for127 projects, totaling $251 million, and had issuedx a notice to proceed on 94 projects worthn $190 million, Kirkpatrick said. Among the area projects gettingt under way this summer are improvementsa to the Blue which willreceive $34 million in ARRA and the rehabilitation of the Girard Poinrt Bridge, which at $66 milliohn is perhaps the largest stimulus project to be undertaken, Kirkpatrickk said.
The Intelligent Transportation Systemon I-95 will also be extended in Delaware County with $17.5 million in federal stimulus funds and in Buck and Philadelphia counties with $36.3 million in federall stimulus funds. The projecgt will add message boards and cameras to the roadwat that PennDOT will use to respond to Kirkpatrick said. “One of the key ways to deal with congestiom is to deal immediatelywith incidents,” Kirkpatrick SEPTA has nearly $100 millionh worth of ARRA funded projects slatesd to get under way this summer, which will create an estimates 3,016 jobs.
SEPTA was allocated $191 millioh in federal stimulus funds to complete 26 capitalpdevelopment projects, but has been able to add six projectds because of projects coming in unde r bid, Robert L. Lund Jr., senior directore of capital construction, said. “We went from 26 projects to 32 projectas we can get done withour $191 Lund said. “With our bids we are saving about 16 percent fromour budget, so we were able to add thesde in.” Summer SEPTA projects, which are expected to creatre the most jobs, include the $30 million rehabilitationh of the Girard and Spring Garden stationd on the Broad Street Subway (projected 900 $18.
8 million Fern Rock Yard tracmk renewal (projected 565 jobs); $10.7 million Media Sharojn Hill grade crossings (projected 323 jobs) and $5.7 milliobn Gwynedd Cut stabilization on the R5 Lansdale Line (projectedd 173 jobs). The New Jerseg Department of Transportation (NJ DOT) will begi n construction on morethan $84 millionm in projects in Gloucester and Burlington counties by September funded by the federal stimulus. A $69.6 millioj pavement rehabilitation of Route 295 in Gloucester and Camden is schedulefd to begin next month and is expectedd to create about 650 Anestimated $1.
7 million projecg in early September to replace the Main Street bridgre deck over Route 206 in Mansfield, Burlingtonj County, is expected create about nine jobs. Routre 30 Cooper River drainage improvement projects are also slated to begin in Septembe in Pennsaukenand Camden, Camdenj County. The number of jobs expected to be created are not yet knownj forthe project, which has an estimated cost of $13 million.