AUBURN — The Maine Department of Transportation announces intermittent closures scheduled Wednesday evening at the on and off ramps to the Maine Turnpike. From 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, crews will be installing equipment over the southbound on and off ramps at Exit 75. Each lane closure is expected to last about 20 […]
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Maine Turnpike Exit 75 closures scheduled for Wednesday night
AUBURN — The Maine Department of Transportation announces intermittent closures scheduled Wednesday evening at the on and off ramps to the Maine Turnpike. From 6 to 10 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 5, crews will be installing equipment over the southbound on and off ramps at Exit 75. Each lane closure is expected to last about 20 […]
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Lewiston man charged with OUI after turnpike crash
LEWISTON — A Lewiston man was charged with operating under the influence and leaving the scene of an accident, after a two-car crash that injured three people Thursday night on the Maine Turnpike. David Strout of Lewiston was heading north on Interstate 95 at a high rate of speed when he struck the guardrail at […]
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Maine Turnpike Authority awards $39.5 million contract for new York tollbooth
The Maine Turnpike Authority plans to begin construction of a new tollbooth plaza in York next month. Reed and Reed, a construction firm from Woolwich, was awarded a $39.5 million contract for the three-year project Thursday. The company will build a new tollbooth plaza about a mile and a half north of the present tolls […]
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MTA approves $140M plan to widen 5 miles of highway in Portland area
The Maine Turnpike Authority will move quickly to widen part of the four-lane highway in the Portland area. The authority’s board of directors on Thursday approved a scaled-back plan to add a travel lane in each direction to about 5 miles of the turnpike, which is Interstate 95, from Scarborough to about a mile beyond […]
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Major planned I-95 construction in southern Maine likely to cause headaches for years
A pair of major road projects will likely complicate travel on Interstate 95 in southern Maine for the next few years even as a record number of drivers are expected to be using the highway. Starting next spring, the Maine Department of Transportation will undertake a three-year, $30 million project to resurface the six-lane Piscataqua […]
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One person killed in Tuesday morning turnpike crash in Wells
One person was killed Tuesday morning in a crash on the Maine Turnpike in Wells. The crash was reported around 6:30 a.m. at mile 18 northbound in Wells. One person was killed in the single-car crash near the Wells-Ogunquit town line, said Stephen McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety. Maine State Police […]
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Man stopped on turnpike using cell phone as scooter headlight
KITTERY (AP) — Authorities say a man traveled from Massachusetts to Maine on a scooter using only his cell phone as a headlight. Maine State Police posted a photo and description of the incident on Instagram on Sunday. Police say a trooper stopped the motorized scooter on the Maine Turnpike in Kittery just before 1:30 […]
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Motorists subdue Lewiston man throwing rocks at cars on turnpike
Several motorists, angered by a man they spotted throwing rocks Sunday afternoon at passing cars on the Maine Turnpike in Scarborough, forcibly subdued him until troopers from the Maine State Police arrived. Steve McCausland, spokesman for the Maine Department of Public Safety, in a statement said that David Mullen, 42, who was high on drugs […]
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Massachusetts woman charged with drug trafficking after turnpike search
A 37-year-old Massachusetts woman is facing drug trafficking charges after she was arrested on the Maine Turnpike while allegedly carrying crack cocaine and suboxone strips. A car driven by Ryan Moores of Athol, Massachusetts, was stopped around 10 p.m. Saturday on the turnpike in York by Trooper John Darcy, a member of Troop G and […]