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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.
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]
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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
SR 203 was the only state route in Maine that was designated by the Maine Department of Transportation as a town road for its entire length as opposed to a state highway or a state-aid highway. [1] All maintenance on the road was performed by the respective town in which the road sat, which is no longer SR 203.
State Route 138 (SR 138) is part of Maine's system of numbered state highways, located entirely in Sagadahoc County. It runs from U.S. Route 201 (US 201) in Bowdoin, to Interstate 295 (I-295) while running concurrent with SR 125 for one mile (1.6 km). It then reaches SR 197 in Richmond, and ends at the junction with US 201 in Richmond.
Parent article: Lac-Mégantic rail disaster The involved tracks and train were operated by the Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA, also MM&A). Over the decade leading up to this accident, aggressive cost cutting [1] [2] for freight train operations and continued deferred maintenance on the tracks resulted in much of the trackage being in marginal condition. [3]