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DOT and city outline multi-year bridge work; residents warned of prolonged local impacts
Summary
Maine DOT and city engineering staff described several concurrent bridge-replacement projects (including Stillwater Avenue and a bridge over I-95), a design-build delivery method, and a construction timeline that could extend to 2029; staff said coordination will be key to minimizing neighborhood traffic impacts.
City engineering staff and a DOT project manager on Monday briefed the Infrastructure Committee on a cluster of bridge replacement projects that the Maine Department of Transportation plans to deliver by design-build, with construction expected to begin in 2025 and run through 2029 for major crossings.
Jefferson Davis, interim director of engineering, summarized DOT plans for multiple nearby bridges including the bridge on Stillwater Avenue, a bridge carrying a local avenue over I-95 (named in the presentation as "Investigative Avenue"), and other DOT-led replacements and resurfacing projects. Davis said DOT intends to use the design-build procurement method to compress schedule and coordinate contractor and…
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