RUMFORD — Due to lack of attendance, Maine Department of Transportation officials canceled Wednesday night’s public meeting to discuss proposed improvements to Haverhill Bridge.
“No one showed up,” except a NewPage employee, Ben Condon, MDOT project manager, said. And they’d already been talking with him prior to scheduling the meeting, he said.
Haverhill Bridge is the 365-foot-long concrete and steel girder span that provides access to the NewPage paper mill and to Brookfield Power from upper Congress Street or River Street behind Rite Aid.
Condon had hoped to get a definitive answer Wednesday night from townspeople or town officials on the name of the road, which is owned by the town.
The state, he said, owns the bridge and wants to replace it with a sloping road since the bridge no longer spans canal water from the adjacent Androscoggin River.
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