Maine
Maine Turnpike to study improvements at existing York plaza & look deeper at cashless
Posted Tue, 2008-05-20 18:39
Maine Turnpike Authority's board have asked HNTB engineering consultants to study options for upgrading toll collection at the existing York toll plaza. HNTB are also being asked to do a more in-depth study of cashless all-electronic tolling option.
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Cash toll collection planned at Maine's new $35m southern toll plaza
Posted Wed, 2008-03-12 23:45
Cash toll collection is still kicking. In Maine the Turnpike Authority is pushing ahead with a planned replacement to their busiest toll plaza - the mainline plaza in York at Mile Marker 7, seven miles north of the New Hampshire border. And they plan a new $32m to $35m nineteen toll lanes plaza – 2+ 2 open road electronic toll (ORT) lanes through the middle and fifteen stop-to-pay toll lanes, eight southbound, seven northbound, straddling the ORT lanes.
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Toll diversion studied in southwest Maine - found to be 2 to 3 percent
Posted Fri, 2008-01-25 21:30
Diversion from the tollroad to the parallel free road is an issue in southwest Maine, as in other places. In Maine they've just studied it again. HNTB ran surveys for the Turnpike on the nearby free roads and at the York toll plaza to establish how many people are taking the free road to avoid the toll.
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Maine governor looks at absorbing Turnpike into state DOT after talk of tolling free interstates
Posted Sun, 2007-10-07 18:47
The
siren song of economies of consolidation is now being heard in Maine.
Governor John Baldacci (Dem) is having staff look at the ramifications
of turning operations of the state Turnpike over to the state DOT,
retaining the Maine Turnpike Authority as a state financing agency only.
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Moose hazard on Maine turnpike
Posted Tue, 2007-05-29 17:24Deer are a roadway hazard throughout the US but Maine has moose too. Maine Turnpike had two car-moose crashes early his morning, AP reports, and injuries to people near Scarborough. The moose didn't get a word from AP but we guess they got smashed up too.
Having once confronted a bull moose on the rollercoaster ME9 road about midway between Bangor and Calais (at the New Brunswick border) at 70mph we can testify they are formidable beasts to meet on a road.
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Having once confronted a bull moose on the rollercoaster ME9 road about midway between Bangor and Calais (at the New Brunswick border) at 70mph we can testify they are formidable beasts to meet on a road.
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Maine Turnpike going to the dogs - artwise
Posted Thu, 2007-04-26 20:42
Maine Turnpike has chosen William Wegman, the artist who has made fame and fortune from silly but charming dog pictures to be their illustrator. Some kinds of doggery is going to be on display in three huge murals the Turnpike is buying for $102k.
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