Record Road Construction In North Dakota This Summer: $900 Million Vs Previous Record of $600 Million (2011)

The Bismarck Tribune is reporting:

The North Dakota Transportation Department is embarking on its largest construction program ever.

It calls for $878 million in road work, dwarfing the record of $590 million in 2011, said Grant Levi, acting DOT director.

“If you drive just about any major road this summer, you’re going to see construction,” Levi said during a Monday briefing to western North Dakota legislators.

Much of the construction will be in the state’s oil patch, where roads have been packed with trucks and other oil-related traffic.

The other day, someone wrote to tell me that man-camps were 30 - 40% unoccupied. Something tells me this is about to change. And the contractors will come out of Denver.