As the ranking minority member on the Legislature’s Joint Standing Committee on Transportation, I wish to highlight some local projects in my district listed in the Maine Department of Transportation’s (MaineDOT) most recent Work Plan for calendar years 2024, 2025, and 2026. Encompassing 2,672 individual work items, with a total value of $4.74 billion, the Plan includes all capital projects and programs, maintenance and operations activities, planning initiatives, and administrative functions.
Principally consisting of work to be delivered or coordinated through MaineDOT, the agenda likewise takes into account funds to be expended by other transportation partners, including airports and transit agencies that receive federal funds directly.
In Arundel, Days Mill Bridge over the Kennebunk River is scheduled to be replaced at a cost of nearly $3.7 million. Downing Bridge, also in Arundel over the Kennebunk River, is slated for replacement at a cost of $3 million. Light capital paving on both Route 35 and Route 5, in Dayton, is planned, while in Lyman, a $1.9 million reconstruction of Route 111/Day Road is on the docket.
Other local projects are also part of the Plan. You can find further details online at https://www.maine.gov/mdot/projects/workplan/search/, or feel free to contact me directly at (207) 229-5195.
Sincerely,
Wayne R. Parry
State Representative (Dist. 140)