The Maine Department of Transportation released a report Tuesday that confirms what commuters already know — Interstate 295 around Portland is congested, unreliable, and, at times, unsafe. The report includes near-term plans for improvements such as pull-off lanes, message boards and longer approach ramps to ease choking traffic and reduce the number of crashes on […]
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Maine tourism industry has a sunny outlook as critical summer season kicks off
Visitors started flooding into Maine on Thursday to enjoy the long Memorial Day weekend, the unofficial start to the state’s tourism season. The next few months are critical for Maine’s tourism industry and state officials are optimistic more people will visit the state in 2018, continuing a five-year growth trend. “Two-thirds of our business does come during […]
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Jay man sentenced in heroin case
FARMINGTON — A Jay man was sentenced Tuesday to serve 10 months of a four-year jail sentence after he pleaded guilty to conspiracy to traffic in heroin, according to Franklin County court documents. Jeremiah Dean Paulton, 35, formerly of Wilton, was arrested Aug. 31, 2017, on a felony conspiracy charge and indicted in November after […]
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Winthrop officials to ask Maine DOT to look at Route 202 and Main St. intersection
WINTHROP — A recent spike in crashes at the redesigned intersection of U.S. Route 202 and Main Street has led local officials, one of whom calls the new traffic pattern a “disaster,” to seek a review from the Maine Department of Transportation. In the decade before that new traffic pattern was constructed last spring, an average of […]
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Nate Libby pushes for state funding of pedestrian safety projects
AUGUSTA — Hoping to reduce the number of pedestrians killed in Maine, state Sen. Nate Libby hopes to snag $5 million in transportation funds to help municipalities make safety improvements for those on foot. “Improvements to pedestrian safety have been consistently cut out of strained municipal budgets,” Libby said in a prepared statement Friday. A […]
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Auburn: Railroad repairs block High Street traffic
AUBURN — High Street is closed partially to traffic Monday. Railroad crews are repairing a broken rail in the south-bound lane of High Street. Drivers from Minot Avenue will be able to turn onto High Street. But drivers will not be able to reach Minot Avenue from Academy Street. Detour signs will direct traffic to […]
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What you need to know
Waterford Board of Selectmen Aug. 14, 2017 Town Office Traffic speed What happened: Al Struck said the extra police patrol this summer has done little to slow traffic in Waterford Flat. What it means: In March voters approved $3,672 to have an Oxford County patrol deputy enforce speed laws two hours a week in high-traffic areas […]
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Build Maine test new traffic pattern on Lincoln Street
LEWISTON — Dozens of volunteers, wearing reflective vests in the hot sun, placed temporary traffic cones and painted new lines along Lincoln Street on Thursday, testing out a pedestrian and bicycle-friendly traffic pattern for the two-day Build Maine conference. Cans of spraypaint, stencils and cones littered the sidewalks for a brief time as the crew […]
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Gridlock, garbage, danger: Study aims to tame Forest Avenue corridor
PORTLAND — Failure and promise were on display at Morrills Corner on April 27 as rush-hour traffic passed in fits and bursts. “When people ask why I don’t walk to work, I tell them, ‘Morrills Corner,’” Josh Pelletier said, though he lives no more than half a mile from his job at the University of […]
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Roundabout ‘off the table’ for Topsham’s Lower Village
TOPSHAM — After a feasibility study determined a roundabout in the Lower Village would cause traffic backups, the town is seeking other ways to make the area safer for drivers and pedestrians. The Board of Selectmen in August 2015 unanimously approved funding the $30,000 study by Tom Errico, a traffic engineer with the T.Y. Lin […]