Lincoln Street widening to get public review Thursday

It's a good news for Lincoln residents. Street rebuilding is an advantage for the community, hence the used of tax funds were allocated for a good purpose. When governments experience an upset of revenues – there are two ways to deal with it.  One is to reduce expenditures, which has been avoided.  The other, is to increase revenue, which is to say, increase taxes – states or cities can't exactly get payday loans.  The easiest way, and the least noticeable in some respects, is to increase sales taxes.

Im glad to see that a street in town will finally get repaired the right way rather than yet another bandaid or bubble gum fix.  While yes it is nice when a road is newly paved, its also a known fact that overlaying a broken up road will only cause the new surface to do the same.  To fix a road you need to start below the surface.  New gravel, drainage and appropriate ditching and sloping are neccessary to keep a road in shape for many years.  So for everyone thinking they are other roads in town that need work, while you may be right.  Please consider that fact that this one will be repaired correctly and actually last. 

Lincoln street is classified as a Minor Arterial handling an Average Annual Daily Traffic count of 6100, as measured in 2008.  This is a great project qualifying for Federal Highway Participation in a capital improvement of the roadway.  Unfortunately FHA funds are not used for maintenance activities.  We can always think of another street to finish, like Webster with an Annual Average Daily Traffic Count of 5800 vehicles, but there is only so much money and Webster has been improved over the years where Lincoln St carrying more or equivalent traffic has never been engineered to a modern standard.  I think they may have gotten this one right.  And think how happy the bicyclist will be with a place to ride!  Now if we could just make them register those bikes for the excise tax.  Share the road share the taxes!

What about jobs?

Many more roads need repair and are far more traveled then lincoln st.....Webster from Farwell to Sabattus is aweful, just one example...and many riggs use this route.also...road construction is seasonal work...we need hammer and saw  construction projects year round.

we need clean-up week

MASTER PLAN ???    Do any of these politicians understand that widening a small stretch of lincoln st does not affect the majority of their constituents as much as taking away spring curb-side clean up ?? These politicians have lost touch with their constituents. Let  Country kitchen's taxes go up to pay that stretch of lincoln st., Their tractor trailers take lincoln st to alfred plourde parkway,and put the most serious wear and tear on lincoln st.  Walmart,and that brake service place for tractor trailers, The heavy equipment being rented at easy rent mostly travels lincoln st. It's not the single car traffic that damages that street the most, it's the big trucks; including city trucks. Maybe you politicians can do what you do best, and build another parking garage,and use the money it makes to repair the roads in the city that need it much more than lincoln st.

Is this federal money available for day to day maintenance or only for widening and improvement projects like this.  I both drive and bike Lincoln on my way to work daily and it clearly needs the work.

I agree with Tron Oh My! there needs to be an overhaul of some of the worse streets in this city than widening a road that will be flooded within a few years stop spending our money faster than we can make it dum dums!!

There are many road that need basic repair throughout the city.  It was bad enough that the last council neglected to spend money on road maintenance, and instead squandered it on needless expenses, but don't continue on the same path.