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Article: Ellsworth debates traffic options Improvement, development issues intertwined
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- August 11, 2003
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ELLSWORTH - On a recent muggy Friday, cars and trucks crept along
High Street, blocking intersections and entrances to strip malls and
shopping centers, as traffic signals overhead ineffectively changed
from one color to the next and back again.
"Is there an accident on High Street?" one officer asked over his
police radio, trying to find out whether a collision was to blame for
the bumper-to-bumper traffic.
"No," was the reply. "It's just a typical summer day in
Ellsworth."
A lot of people think Ellsworth has a major traffic problem, and
they want the state to do something about it.
Others, including some local officials, think the state - or, more
specifically, the Maine Department of ...