| Town
of Lamoine, Maine |
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(Lamoine) — Shore Road resident Carlton Johnson put it succinctly the
other day: “I’ve traveled a lot of roads in Maine this past week,
and that section of Route 184 from Route 1 to the Town Hall has to be the
worst”. The Board of Selectmen agreed, and has asked the Maine Department
of Transportation to place it on the list of roads to consider reconstructing
in the next two years. Riddled with frost heaves, depressions, wheel ruts
and crumbling pavement, the road offers a bone jarring ride in the spring
of the year. It doesn’t get much better after the frost gets out of
the ground in the summer.
The section was not alone on the nomination list. The section of Route 184 from Latona Lane to Lamoine Beach was also placed in nomination. It’s frost heaves rival the North Lamoine section. The Selectmen also nominated a short section of Route 204 along Partridge Cove Road as needing repair. That section perennially floods and freezes over due to clogged culverts in the winter creating unsafe surface conditions. The MDOT paved that entire section of Route 204 last summer.
The MDOT has obtained permits from the Maine Department of Environmental
protection to replace guardrails and culverts on Route 184 near Latona Lane
and on Route 204 across Archer’s Brook.