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01-29-2009, 09:14 PM
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"a dis-sheveled hitch-hiker in a worn peacoat"
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Join Date: Feb 2007
Location: Argyle, Maine
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$139million of the stimulus package to be spent in Maine
Maine stimulus $ estimated - Boston.com
The Maine transportation commissioner expects federal stimulus money for roads and bridges to total $139 million.
He says the money could be used for a range of projects, including the rehabilitation of the northbound lanes of Interstate 295 between Topsham and West Gardiner.
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01-30-2009, 06:14 AM
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Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Well Downeast
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There is sooo much waste involved inany gov't spending. We get $150k from FAA for our airport each year. The feds like to spread the money aroud so we had to contract an engineering form. This is befopre you even talk about any projects!!! We were going to put in fuel for the GA and jets. $150,000; no sweat right? By the time the engineers got don they had eaten 3/4 of the money. None left for the project. Hell, give the City $40,000 and we could have done the whole thing and kept the money in the county. But, noooooooo. We had to survey everything and find a tree 2 ft. into the glideslope and a ham radio antenna 18 inches in to it.
How much of that $139 Mil will get squandered like that????
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01-30-2009, 06:26 AM
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"status" from Dale Carnegie
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Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: a step from New Brunswick...
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do you think we could get a little in our part of the state to repair Rt 1 a little? My list is small....
-shoulders on the road....
-I'd like to travel from Ellsworth north (and east) without needing a mouth guard....
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01-30-2009, 06:36 AM
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Senior Member
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"Are we there yet? I gotta go."
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Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Way South, ME
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I worry about the bridges. Thank God the Narrows bridge was completed. there are a multitude of heavily used structures that are ticking safety time bombs for motorists.
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01-30-2009, 08:59 AM
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Maine is home
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Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: 26° 55′ 34″ N, 82° 21′ 35″ W
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tcrackly
I worry about the bridges. Thank God the Narrows bridge was completed. there are a multitude of heavily used structures that are ticking safety time bombs for motorists.
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That one was a breeze! You probably should have continued down onto Deer Isle and rode that bad boy while she was swaying back and forth. Still a work in progress 4 yrs later! She's lookin' good though!  |
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01-30-2009, 09:53 AM
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Waiting Impatiently to Move Home
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Join Date: Nov 2006
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Given the condition of roads and bridges when we left nearly 3 years ago, I'm sure that money could be put to good use. Hopefully it will come with BIG strings so that it has to be used for infrastructure as opposed to allowing Baldacci & company to get their hands on it to use willy-nilly.
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