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Route 236 Corridor Implementation Committee
This Committee, formed in the Fall of 2004, includes the towns of Kittery, Eliot, and South Berwick, Maine DOT, the Maine Turnpike Authority, York County Community Action, the Seacoast New Hampshire Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), and others. The Committee was formed as a response to several different studies completed in the last 3-5 years. This effort, while updating data on current conditions of the roadway, almost exclusively focus on implementing strategies and programs which will attempt to preserve existing capacity and reduce future municipal and state expenditures on Route 236. The plan is to work with not only the Corridor Committee, but also municipal decision makers in all towns to ensure that these recommendations are considered and adopted.
Links to Route 236 Corridor Implementation Committee Information Below:
Staff Contact: Tom Reinauer
Route 111 Corridor Committee
SMRPC has been working with the municipalities of Sanford, Alfred, Lyman, Arundel, and Biddeford, along with Maine DOT, the York County Sheriff's Dept. and the State Police. The Corridor Committee convened to address land use patterns and growth in the corridor, coordinate the various enforcement, planning, and improvement implementation efforts, and to share information between agencies and between municipalities. The shared vision of all entities involved is a safer highway and the preservation of its important east-west mobility function.
Links to Route 111 Corridor Committee Information Below:
Staff Contact: Tom Reinauer
Route 109 Corridor Committee
SMRPC has been working with Sanford, Wells, Maine DOT, the Maine Turnpike Authority, and York County Community Action. The purpose of the Committee is to provide coordination between the many land use and transportation planning efforts related to Route 109 in an effort to build a long-term coalition between Corridor stakeholders, and to determine if the road will be able to meet the mobility needs of the anticipated future economic and residential activity in the region. Another objective of the committee is to assess the impact of Maine DOT's access management rules on existing and potential future curb cuts, and develop access management strategies to preserve road capacity and enhance safety along the corridor.
Links to Route 109 Corridor Committee Information Below:
Staff Contact: Tom Reinauer
Route 113 Corridor Planning
There are currently two planning activities occuring in this corridor: 1) an effort to determine the eligibility of Route 113 and Route 2 for a scenic byway designation; and 2) an effort to use Community Development Block Grant Funds to assess regional economic development opportunities for the Route 113 Corridor.
Scenic Byway Planning
The Androscoggin Valley Council of Governments (AVCOG), in partnership with the Western Maine Cultural Alliance (WMCA) and the Southern Maine Regional Planning Commission (SMRPC), received a grant from the Maine Department of Transportation to determine Route 113 and Route 2's eligibility for scenic byway designation. The target area includes Route 113 from Standish to Gilead and Route 2 from Gilead to Bethel. See the Route 113 map below.
WMCA and SMRPC are currently working with towns along the corridor to answer questions and gather support for the scenic byways program. Public meetings are planned to answer questions and record important information about the corridor. The agencies are also in the process of gathering background, intrisic resource and scenic byway criteria assessment information for the corridor.
For a summary of the 113/2 scenic byway project click here.
Pequawket Trail Scenic Byway Application for Maine Scenic Byway Status click here.
More information is also available on the Western Maine Cultural Alliance website.
Click here to learn more about existing Maine Scenic Byways.Click here to learn more about the National Scenic Byway Program.
Scenic Byway Administration Contact: Dina Jackson, AVCOG
Northern Corridor Contact (Fryeburg to Gilead/Bethel): Toni Seger, WMCA
Southern Corridor Contact (Standish to Brownfield): Julia Dawson , SMRPC
Economic Development Planning
In conjunction with the Greater Portland Council of Governments (GPCOG), SMRPC is partnering with Fryeburg, Brownfield, Hiram, Baldwin, and Standish to assess regional economic development opportunities for the Route 113 Corridor using funding from a recently awarded Community Development Block Grant (CDBG).
Standish to Fryeburg Economic Development Planning Contact: Caroline Paras, GPCOG
Links to Route 113 Corridor Committee Information Below:
Route 1 Corridor Coalition
SMRPC and KACTS began a Route 1 Corridor Coalition planning effort in the winter of 2006. The Corridor Coalition represents public and private sector groups with a stake in the future of U.S. Route 1 from Kittery, ME to Biddeford, ME. The coalition is currently in the process of studying existing conditions of the corridor's transportation, land use and economic development needs and will be developing a purpose and needs statement and action plan.
Links to Route 1 Corridor Coalition Below:
Staff Contact: Tom Reinauer
