The bridge study team is looking for feedback from members of the community over the next two weeks to add to the comments gathered from some 40 residents who joined the virtual meeting Thursday night.
The hearing was part of MaineDOT’s Village Partnership program, which would provide the town with roughly $10 million to fund street improvement projects.
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Price tag for easing Brunswick road’s heavy congestion could be in the millions
Brunswick s Pleasant Street sees thousands of vehicles daily, and experienced dozens of crashes in 2020.
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A taxi pulls out from the intersection of River Road and Pleasant Street in Brunswick on Tuesday, Aug. 3. The town council is weighing options on how to ease congestion on the heavily-traveled section of Route 1.
C. Thacher Carter / The Times Record
Town officials are weighing how to ease congestion on one of Brunswick’s most heavily traveled roads, but those solutions may come with a hefty price tag. A transportation engineer presented with the first recommendations last week about how to solve traffic congestion issues on Pleasant Street, a roughly two-mile segment of Route 1 linking Interstate 295 and downtown Brunswick.