Robert Long, BDN staff Bangor Daily News news story A proposed 220-mile east-highway across Maine will hurt local businesses and destroy wildlife habitat, opponents of the project said at a State House event Tuesday. Patrick McGowan, a former Route 2 business owner, Maine conservation commissioner, legislator and Democratic candidate for governor, said Tuesday that “people Read More
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Sangerville Residents Place Moratorium on East-West Corridor Development
By Alex Barber, BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story SANGERVILLE, Maine â Sangerville residents voted to place a moratorium on development related to a proposed east-west highway during Saturday’s town meeting. Residents voted nearly unanimously to place a six-month moratorium on any development related to the east-west corridor, Sangerville Town Manager Dave Pearson said Read More
Unanswered Questions Fuel Heated Meeting Over East-West Highway
by Nick McCrea, BDN staff Bangor Daily News news story BANGOR, Maine â Uncertainty surrounding the route of a proposed 220-mile highway across Maine sparked vehement questioning, opposition and doubt during a Tuesday morning meeting at the historic Penobscot County Courthouse. Cianbro Corp. CEO Peter Vigue, the leading proponent of the east-west highway, spent much Read More
Skeptical Landowners Grill Cianbro CEO on East-West Highway Plans
by Jay Field MPBN news story The state’s decision to back away from any official involvement in a proposal to build an east-west highway in Maine has not deterred the private interests that are still backing the project. Cianbro, the Pittsfield-based construction firm, wants to build a 220-mile, privately-funded roadway from Calais to Coburn Gore Read More
Cianbro CEO Peter Vigue, Project Manager to Update Penobscot County Commissioners on East-West Highway Plan
By Nick McCrea, BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story BANGOR, Maine â Penobscot County commissioners will hear the leading proponent’s side of the contentious debate over the proposed 220-mile east-west highway on Tuesday morning. Cianbro Corp. chairman and CEO Peter Vigue and Darryl Brown, manager of the $2.1 billion project, are scheduled to update Read More
Transparency Needed on Transportation Projects
The public has the right to know what the state and its private roadwork partners are up to. Portland Press Herald editorial Back in 2010, the Legislature created an exemption to the state’s right-to-know law that you could drive a truck through. Under this exemption, all records of public-private partnerships involving transportation projects of $25 Read More
East-west Highway Foes Pursue Access to Information
Much of a hearing on confidentiality also serves as a forum for criticisms of the proposed $2 billion project. by Michael Shepherd, State House Bureau Portland Press Herald news story Opponents of a proposed east-west highway across Maine packed a legislative hearing Friday to lobby lawmakers for more access to information about the controversial project. Read More
Bill Seeks to Lift Confidentiality from East-west Highway Partnership, but MDOT Says No Partnership Exists
By Robert Long, BDN Staff Bangor Daily News news story Lingering suspicions about plans to build a 220-mile east-west highway through central and rural Maine drew a large crowd to a legislative hearing Friday on a bill to make documents related to projects like it public. Sponsored by Assistant House Democratic Leader Jeff McCabe of Read More
East-West Highway Bids Sought Well Before Law Signed
The Maine DOT says it was just anticipating authorization, but critics say it shows a rush to advance the east-west project. by Steve Mistler, staff writer Portland Press Herald news story The Maine Department of Transportation began seeking a contractor to conduct a feasibility study of an east-west highway across Maine weeks before Gov. Paul Read More
