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The Maine Department of Transportation, also known as MaineDOT (occasionally referred to as MDOT), is the office of state government charged with the regulation and maintenance of roads, rail, ferries, and other public transport infrastructure in the state of Maine. An exception is the Maine Turnpike, which is maintained by the Maine Turnpike ...
Maine has one primary Interstate highway, I-95, within its borders, as well as four related routes: I-195, I-295, I-395, and the unsigned I-495.All Interstate highways in Maine are part of the National Highway System and, as such, receive some degree of federal funding.
New Hampshire Route 113B and New Hampshire Route 153 enter Maine. NH 153 remains entirely under NHDOT maintenance. NH 113B is a loop of Maine State Route 113. The spans of NH 113B within Maine are considered unnumbered highway by the MDOT. SR 113 enters New Hampshire several times but remains under MDOT maintenance. New England Interstates
Public transportation in Maine is available for all four main modes of transport—air, bus, ferry and rail—assisting residents and visitors to travel around much of Maine's 31,000 square miles (80,000 km 2). The Maine Department of Transportation (MDOT) has broken down the state's sixteen counties into eight regions: [1]
It passed, with Maine the first state east of the Mississippi River since the 1970s to establish a 75-mile-per-hour (121 km/h) speed limit. [8] [9] A further law passed in 2013 by the Maine Legislature allowed MaineDOT and the MTA to change speed limits with the approval of the Maine State Police. Per that law, MaineDOT increased the 65-mile ...
Interstate 395 (I-395) is a 4.99-mile-long (8.03 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Maine.The western terminus of the route is at a cloverleaf interchange with I-95 near downtown Bangor.
U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in the U.S. state of Maine is a major north–south section of the United States Numbered Highway System, serving the eastern part of the state.It parallels the Atlantic Ocean from New Hampshire north through Portland, Brunswick, and Belfast to Calais, and then the St. Croix River and the rest of the Canada–United States border via Houlton to Fort Kent.
When the modern state highway system was first implemented in Maine in 1925, all state highways which did not cross state lines were assigned numbers 100 and up. This was to avoid conflicts with the New England road marking system, which had been adopted in the other New England states in 1922. All of the New England routes used one- or two ...