Augusta ? As has been reported earlier, Route 2 is closed at the border of Maine and New Hampshire due to storm damage. Motorists must seek an alternate route.

For more information please contact Bill Boynton at NHDOT at 603-271-6495.

Augusta - As power crews continue to bring residents and businesses back online, MaineDOT continues to clear debris from state roads and railroads. Where these two efforts intersect is when there are trees and brush entangled in power lines. MaineDOT crews cannot clear the brush or power lines from a roadway until CMP has determined the line and area are safe. Even if a line is disconnected from a pole it may be fed from residential generators or other sources.

Augusta - Beginning on Tuesday, November 7th, construction will begin on a new set of temporary interstate ramps which will allow access between Whitten Road and I-95 Exit 109A.

Augusta - On Tuesday, November 14, a public meeting will be held regarding Maine's share of the court settlements that order Volkswagen to fund actions that reduce NOx emissions to improve air quality and provide health benefits based on their installation of defeat devices on 2.0 and 3.0 liter vehicles sold in the United States.

Augusta - MaineDOT is asking for the public's help to identify the driver or the vehicle responsible for catastrophic damage on the I-95 Interstate overpass in Augusta.

Bar Harbor - MaineDOT said today that its contractors expect to wrap up Phase One of the reconstruction of Route 3 in Bar Harbor by Thanksgiving Day.

The project kicked off in early spring and continued throughout the busy summer season. Work began 0.57 miles west of Sand Point Road and has proceeded southward to Crooked Road. During this time, northbound traffic was detoured to Crooked Road except for periods when 2-way traffic could be maintained on Route 3. Access to homes and businesses along Route 3 has been maintained throughout the reconstruction.

Yarmouth - Main Street in Yarmouth will close at 10:00 p.m. on Friday, November 17th and will reopen on Monday, November 20th at 4:00 a.m. while crews work around the clock to demolish parts of the Route 1 bridge that spans Main Street.

There will be no motor vehicle or pedestrian access to Main Street directly under the bridge during the weekend.

Kittery - As the Sarah Mildred Long Bridge in Kittery continues to be constructed, the opening ceremony, scheduled for Friday, December 1st has been postponed.

Due to weather constraints, the opening celebration will be held in the spring of 2018. This will allow time for planning and coordination with the communities of Kittery and Portsmouth, N.H.

Planning for the event was in the early stages. This decision was made now as invitations and other material have not been produced.

The Sarah Mildred Long Bridge is still scheduled to be opened to traffic by year's end.

Hallowell - Crews will be installing catch basins and outlet pipes in Hallowell beginning on Monday, November 20th. This work is being done in anticipation of the full road reconstruction project planned for Water Street in the spring of 2018. It is being done now to comply with the sturgeon habitat work permit window. This project will have one outlet pipe flowing into the Kennebec River on Wharf Street with the other installed at the boat launch.

Augusta - New, temporary Interstate 95 on and off-ramps in Augusta are expected to open to traffic in the afternoon of Sunday, November 19th. The temporary ramps are necessary to accommodate the replacement of the recently damaged bridge over I-95.

These new access points to Whitten Road will be used by all traffic taking I-95 to points south of Augusta and for those on I-95 southbound headed east toward downtown Augusta or the Capitol Area.

Exit 109B will remain available for all I-95 southbound traffic headed west toward Manchester/Winthrop.