Police details an expensive part of I-93 project; State officials, contractors defend the cost
SALEM - taxpayers spend hundreds of thousands of dollars to pay police officers at construction sites, such as the Interstate 93 project moves forward.
While the payment of an officer to monitor roadwork cost three times more than the salary of a civil servant state and the contractors defend the practice.
“Certainly, motorists react to the attention lit in blue, as they do for flaggers,” said Bill Boynton, a spokesman for the State Department of Transportation.
The I-93 project - a dollar of several efforts to extend the four-lane highway between Salem and Manchester in 2017 - is facing a spiralling costs. But government officials, entrepreneurs and the police say, the high price to pay for police in construction sites is well applied for money.
A contractor will have to pay $ 65 per hour for a tab State of New Hampshire in a construction site, after Maj. Michael Hambrook New Hampshire State Police.
One civilian Starter deserves usually between $ 8 and $ 10 per hour, according to Peter Krakoff, vice president of the CPM Constructors, Freeport, Maine, construction, enterprises operating in the Granite State. After factoring in health insurance and other costs, a civilian Starter still not cost more than $ 20 per hour, said Krakoff.
But while the details of police were often criticized the government as a source of waste, many experts said the details of paying only a matter of security.
“On the Interstate, we would have certainly preferred the police,” said Krakoff. “People do not support (too), or obey flaggers, and I think also flaggers really are not able to adjust the speed.”
Still, in Salem alone, the state, planning to pay $ 705000 to the police for details on the interaction State.
For road works at the Cross Street Bridge, south of the exit 1, the contractor has RS Audley Inc 305000 dollars to the state budget for the guards. The total project cost is $ 6.7 million.
For road works at junction 1, the contractor SPS New England Inc. plans to spend $ 400000 for the guards. The total project cost is expected to be $ 22.2 million.
At least 24 of these projects, as the two are being considered as part of the I-93 expansion.
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, on the contrary, the contract is not really necessary to have information on partner sites police. Although nearly all parties want the arrangements, especially on the streets as I-93, according to state officials.
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