Items Tagged with 'MaineDOT'

Working within a 14-day window, and culminating in a planned 96-hour complete halt of train operations, the team successfully replaced a 70-year-old structurally deficient bridge located along a remote section of a critical cross-border freight rail route.

Community engagement played a key role in shaping the $9.6-million strategy to replace the picturesque, yet deteriorating concrete tied-arch bridge spanning the reversing falls across Salt Pond that lead to the Atlantic Ocean.

The $82-million project replaced a severely deteriorated 1920s-era through-truss bridge with a 2,087-ft-long, six-span structure designed to serve this key border crossing for at least 100 years.

The Maine Dept. of Transportation has ramped up work and spending in response to the coronavirus.

A new bridge connecting Portsmouth, N.H., and Kittery, Maine, features what engineers believe is the first-ever use of precast-concrete segmental towers on a vertical-lift bridge.