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Article: Ellsworth, officials discuss Beckwith Hill development
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
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- November 22, 2004
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ELLSWORTH - If the city and developers hope to get construction
going again on Beckwith Hill anytime soon, they are going to have to
do it without significant financial help from the state.
Officials with the Maine Department of Transportation held a
public meeting Thursday to air options for mitigating traffic on
existing roads on and around Beckwith Hill.
Tom Gorrill of the Gray firm Gorrill-Palmer Consulting Engineers
told 45 or so people at the meeting how Myrick Street and portions of
Route 1 and 3 may be widened and how traffic on the roads may be
rerouted to improve traffic flow in the congested commercial area.
MDOT officials said, however, the state is not in a position to
help pay ...