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Construction Equals Jobs for NY/NJ Region

NEW YORK CITY-The topic of a forum sponsored here yesterday by the Professional Women in Construction was transportation and job creation.

By Maria Wood | Updated on April 24, 2009

NEW YORK CITY-Improving the region’s infrastructure will not only upgrade highways and rail systems, it will also create much-needed jobs. That was the theme of “Regional Transportation Update: Stimulus Prompting Work,” sponsored by the Professional Women in Construction.

The forum, held here yesterday, was moderated by William Fife, principal of the Fife Group. Panelists included Susan Bass Levin, deputy executive director of the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey; Richard J. Raczynski, chief engineer for the New Jersey Turnpike; Phillip Eng, director, region 11, of the New York State Department of Transportation; and Ernest Williams, director of special projects and compliance for NJ Transit.

Fife set the stage for the discussion by noting that the American Society of Civil Engineers had given the nation’s infrastructure a grade of ‘D’ in a recent report card. He also pointed to the cover story of the January/February issue of Real Estate New York entitled, “Our Crumbling Infrastructure”.

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