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2019 Worst Road in Maine Contest Winners Announced
For immediate release
For information, contact:
Maria Fuentes 207-622-0526 or 207-592-0227
Paul Bradbury 207-874-8877 or 207-756-8029
Section of Route 201 winner of ‘Worst Road in Maine’
William Jarvis, grand prize winner of the 2019 Worst Road in Maine Contest
- Maine Scenic Byway wins top prize for going from ‘falling apart’ to ‘terrible.’
- Route 202 in Sanford, Route 1A in Fort Fairfield and Route 1 in Washington County are runners up.
William Jarvis of Jackman, Maine, won the grand prize for his entry, a 14.3-mile section of Route 201 that stretches from the town of Moose River to the border of Maine and Quebec, Canada. Jarvis, a forester and chief of the Jackman Fire & Rescue Department, frequently has to travel the route t
o reach land that he manages for clients and on his official duties for the town of Jackman. In talking about his entry, Jarvis noted that the road is a popular Maine Scenic Byway, and that the deteriorating condition of the road is more of a deterrent to local tourists. Jarvis has won the $529 grand prize – that is the amount researchers have estimated …
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Transportation For The Future
2019 Maine Transportation Conference
8:15 a.m. – 7 p.m., Thursday, December 5, Augusta Civic Center, Augusta
WHO
The keynote speaker will be Allie Kelly of The Ray, a nonprofit organization that has built the nation’s only publicly accessible, living laboratory for transportation innovation. Kelly has helped the organization implement and build almost a dozen groundbreaking, world-leading technology demonstrations, including the first solar road in the United States and the world’s first public demonstration of a drive-through tire safety station. She was the recipient of the 2018 Atlanta Technology Professionals (ATP) Impact Award and was listed twice as one of the 100 Women to Know by Engineering Georgia.
Other technical and policy track discussions will examine a range of topics, including: Pushing Green Buttons: Political Realities of Raising Revenue; Wicked Smart Roads; and Cars of the Future: Consumer Preferences, Barriers and Opportunities in Maine.
There also will be UMaine College of Engineering student paper presentations (11 a.m.) and the popular Max L. Wilder Bridge Breaking Competition (4:30 p.m.).
A full agenda for the conference is available at www.MBTAonline.org.
ABOUT
This is the 69th presentation of the Maine Transportation Conference. The conference was first held in the late …