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Trouble on the Maine Turnpike
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Several bridge construction projects on the Maine Turnpike between
York and South Portland are causing major traffic backups this
summer due to lane closures. Unfortunately, the pike management is
NOT using any backup alleviation schemes that are common elsewhere,
such as only closing lanes during night work, or such as
constructing temporary bypass lanes to keep all lanes open. They
are arbitrarily just closing lanes during the day, with no warnings,
causing massive backups that extend for miles.
The locations of these backups change from day to day, even from
hour to hour sometimes, so any location report posted here is
useless. But you should expect on average to hit about two of them
each time you try to traverse this section.
Perhpas the most irritating thing of all, and the thing that is most
indicative of the total arrogance of the management, is that when
you finally inch your way through miles of backup and get to the
work site, most of the time you see, to your utter astonishment,
that the lane that is closed is empty!! Usually, there's nothing in
it, no work going on there, and obviously no reason at all that it
has to be closed!!
--
David G. Hawkins
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