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Thursday, October 22, 2015

BDN: Yes on Question 3: Maine’s roads, bridges, transit need this $85 million investment

Ben McCanna | The Forecaster

Traffic stops for construction on the Martin's Point Bridge between Falmouth and Portland in May 2014.

By The BDN Editorial Board

Posted Oct. 22, 2015, at 1:15 p.m.

Do you favor an $85,000,000 bond issue for construction, reconstruction and rehabilitation of highways and bridges and for facilities and equipment related to ports, harbors, marine transportation, freight and passenger railroads, aviation, transit and bicycle and pedestrian trails, to be used to match an estimated $121,500,000 in federal and other funds?

In 2012, Maine’s Legislature revamped the goals set out in state law for the quality of the more than 23,000 miles of roads that carry Maine residents and visitors and the goods they depend on from Point A to Point B.