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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 ...
The route takes around 3.5 hours. On the first Wednesday of each month, a return service runs between Lubec and Machias. [43] Sanford Transit, run by York Community Action Corporation (which is partially funded by the Federal Transit Administration and the Maine DOT), provides year-round service from Springvale to South Sanford.
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.
In 2021, a MaineDOT study endorsed moving the station to a location near the original location of Portland's Union Station. [18] NNERPA plans to extend an existing 2-mile (3.2 km) siding in Wells by 6 miles (9.7 km), which will allow an additional daily Brunswick-Wells round trip. Wells station will get a second platform and a footbridge. In ...
Plans to extend I-395 to connect it to SR 9 began as early as 2001. [14] In February 2008, MaineDOT suggested five possible routes to extend I-395 to SR 9, with two in particular designated as "State's Choice" and "Holden's Choice". [ 15 ]
The segment from Westbrook, Maine to the Maine–New Hampshire border at Fryeburg, Maine, owned by the Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT), remains derelict after a 2011 plan by MaineDOT to rebuild the line for freight and passenger service fell-through. In late July, 2023, MaineDOT filed an STB application to tear-up this entire ...
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-per-hour (105 km/h) limit to 70 mph (110 km/h) on several sections of I-95 on May 27, 2014.
Along its concurrency with SR 15, SR 175 is part of the state highway system therefore maintained by Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) year-round. On all other portions, the road is part of the State Aid System and is maintained by MaineDOT during the summer and by its respective town during the winter. [3] [4]