the trafton boom

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VOLUME 35 n AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2017 n NUMBER 4
The Magazine of the Maine Better Transportation Association
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VOLUME 35 n AUGUST/SEPTEMBER 2017 n NUMBER 4
The Magazine of the Maine Better Transportation Association
IN THIS ISSUE:
MAINE NEWS
19 $105 million bond set. Transportation
will be Question 3 on November ballot.
21 Way 2 GO Maine. Launching a new
commuter initiative.
22 Career quick start. SMCC inaugurates
a new certificate program.
ASSOCIATION NEWS
25 Strokes of genius. Infrastructure Golf 37
Classic reaches an important goal.
31 A safer Main Street. Presque Isle
12
Bypass at Aroostook County Meeting. 41 Hermann takes home a MAC. Doug
Hermann receives top AGC award.
MEMBER NEWS
PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE 37 ‘Never give up, never quit.’ MAINEDOT VIEW
7 Mission accomplished! A first-class, Construction industry bands together 51 The Salmon Programmatic. A new
impressive achievement. By Rodney for wounded warriors. By Kathryn partnership between state agencies. By
Lane. Buxton Joyce Taylor, MaineDOT
CALENDAR EXIT RAMP
9 Upcoming MBTA events. 59 Which way did they go? Surveying
driving habits after World War II.
ON RAMP
11 A digest of recent transportation news.
On the cover: Installing the sign for the new
COVER STORY
Trafton Road exit. Sargent Corp. photo
12 The Trafton boom. The economic
potential of a new exit. By Glenn Adams
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
by Rodney Lane, MBTA President
Mission
ASSOCIATION OFFICERS
President
RODNEY LANE
The Lane Construction Corporation accomplished!
Vice President
PAT SUGHRUE
Cianbro Corporation
2nd Vice President
PAUL BRADBURY
Portland International Jetport
Secretary-Treasurer We give thanks and
DANA KNAPP tournament founder and MBTA Past President
Concord Coach Lines recognition to those Earle Cianchette, who was inspired by our first
Immediate Past President infrastructure donor – Frank Healy, another
PAUL KOZIELL leaders who came
past president and a man with vision.
CPM Constructors
Another event that contributed richly to our
before us and
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
goal was the live and silent auctions at each
TOM BIEGEL
Shaw Brothers Construction, Inc. unselfishly set the year’s fall convention. Those two efforts have
TONY CARUSO paid rich dividends, thanks to the generosity
Bangor International Airport stage for the success of our members.
DANA CONNORS We had a good reason to establish a
Maine State Chamber of Commerce of our industry into
self-sustaining fund to support our efforts
LAUREN COREY
Lauren Corey Consulting LLC toward investment in Maine’s transportation
the future. We also
GREGORY DORE infrastructure. In 1998, we had just come
Maine Chapter APWA
DEBORAH DUNLAP AVASTHI give thanks to our off two very expensive campaigns: in 1991,
Androscoggin Bank the transportation and business community
TIMOTHY FOLSTER greatest asset – our spent $1.2 million to fight a public referendum
Sargent Corporation
against widening the Maine Turnpike; in
THOMAS GORRILL current members.
Port Clyde 1997, we raised another $850,000 for a
ALAN GOULD second widening referendum. We lost the
Your support in the
A.H. Harris Construction Supplies
first campaign and won the second. However,
JIM HANLEY
Pike Industries past and continuing the enormous cost led the board to step back,
JOHN HARBOTTLE strategize, and find a solution for the future.
The Rowley Agency, Inc. into the future Frank Healy urged his fellow board
LARRY HUTCHINS
members to think longer term and establish
Bitumar, Inc.
deserves more than
MICHELLE IBARGUEN the MBTA Infrastructure Development
Cross Insurance Fund. Earle Cianchette conceived the idea
a simple THANK
ROLAND LAVALLEE
of having a tournament and organized and
HNTB Corporation
RANDY MACE YOU. It is first-class chaired our first golf tournament. The intent
Chadwick-BaRoss of the Infrastructure Development Fund was
BRUCE MANZER impressive. And to provide a reliable source of funding for the
Bruce A. Manzer, Inc.
organization’s outreach and public awareness
THOMAS MARTIN, JR. here is why…
Greene efforts and to relieve some of the heavy burden
IAN MESSIER of constant fundraising for MBTA causes.
Crooker Construction LLC
This year we will meet and surpass a We set our sights high. Our original goal was
RYAN RATLEDGE
Central Maine & Quebec Railway goal we had set for ourselves – we’ve to raise $500,000 within the first 15 years. We
STEPHEN SAWYER raised $1.15 million in the MBTA were able to reach that goal, and we extended
Sebago Technics, Inc.
Infrastructure Development Fund. the goal to $1.15 million. This year, we will hit
IRV SMITH
H.O. Bouchard, Inc. This year we had a full field of golfers that mark and should take this opportunity to
BRUCE VAN NOTE again, and more than 50 corporate sponsors celebrate all the good that has come from this
Maine Turnpike Authority
to help us reach our goal by raising more than effort over the past 26 years.
JOHN WARDWELL
The Lane Construction Corporation $28,000. Regarding golf…although I love to joke
CONRAD WELZEL Raising money is something MBTA about how frustrating it is, we always have
City of Portland members have done together, and we’ve had a a great time playing. The camaraderie and
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR lot of fun along the way. It all started thanks to competition is rewarding and really tests
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