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The Kittery Area Comprehensive Transportation Committee (KACTS), in cooperation with MaineDOT, is seeking to obtain the services of qualified consulting firms to conduct a study of transportation strategies to alleviate traffic congestion in downtown South Berwick. For a copy of the RFP click here, or contact Tom Reinauer at SMRPC. For responses to questions regarding the RFP, click here.
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The MaineDOT has announced its new Quality Community Program.
This is a new competitive program designed to improve community transportation related facilities through small harbor improvements, bicycle and pedestrian improvements, safety improvements, environmental improvements, scenic, historic, and other quality community improvements. The Department has combined existing programs such as Transportation Enhancements, Safe Routes to School, Small Harbor Improvement Programs, and various other community programs under one umbrella to create a common application to simplify the application process while improving project delivery. Applications are due Friday, June 6th to compete for funding available in fiscal years 2010-2011. For more information, visit: http://www.maine.gov/mdot-stage/projects-grant-applications/qcp/index.htm
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The 2010-2011 MaineDOT Capital Work Plan
The Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) is now in the process of requesting Transportation Project Priorities from Maine Municipalities. For more information, click here for Maine DOT link.
To download on line the following forms, click here
- Municipal Letter from MaineDOT Commissioner David Cole.
- MaineDOT Transportation Project Request Form.
- MaineDOT Competitive Transportation Programs.
- Connecting Maine MaineDOT's Long Range Transportation Plan
Municipalities will have until March 17th to send completed forms to their Regional Planning Commission.
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The ShuttleBus and the South Portland Bus services are holding two Public Information Meetings on recommendations from a recent Route Study for both systems. The meetings will be held Monday, January 28, 2008 @ 5:30 PM at Saco City Hall and Tuesday, January 29, 2008 @ 6:30 PM at Southern Maine Community College, Jewett Hall. For more information regarding the meeting, copies of the Route Study or summaries of the recommendations, contact Tom Reinauer at SMRPC or click here.
For a copy of the Public Meeting Presentation click here.
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Annual Listing of Obligated Projects
The KACTS Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) is a listing of transportation projects over a four-year period, which will be paid for at least in part with money from the Federal Highway Administration or Federal Transit Administration. To ensure that the public will have an accurate understanding of how federal funds are actually being spent on transportation projects, Title 23, Code of Federal Regulations, part 450.332 requires metropolitan planning organizations to publish an annual listing of project obligations for the preceding program year.
Project Listing. The following link will take you to a list of projects in the KACTS area for which MaineDOT obligated federal funds in federal fiscal year 2007. Click here for list of projects.---------------------------------------------------------------------------
SMRPC is proud to announce that its Traffic Incident Management Plan was recently granted the National Association of Development Organization's 2007 Excellence in Regional Transportation Award.
SMRPC is proud to announce that the Route 113 Corridor was recently named a Maine Scenic Byway, making it eligible for federal transportation and economic development funding. For more information about the 113 byway project click here.
The KACTS MPO Transportation Improvement Program document is now available. Click here. Recent amendments to add Bridge Project, Click here.
MaineDOT's Long Range Plan is now available for viewing. Click here.
MaineDOT's Biennial Capital Work Plan for Fiscal Years 2008-2009 is now available. Click here.
For presentations, handouts and links to resources stemming from the SMRPC Transportation and Land Use Integration Workshop Series, click here.
Public Calendar
8/26/08 - Maine Railway Transportation Forum - Univ. of So. Maine, Portland Campus - 5:30 PM. For flyer and information: click here.
8/22/08 - Maine/NH Traffic Incident Management Group - York Public Library - 12:00 PM. Click Agenda, Action Plan and letter from York County EMA for use of radio frequency for related materials.
8/14/08 - PACTS Transit Committee - GPCOG - 9:30 AM.
7/24/08 - Statewide Traffic Incident Management Committee - MaineDOT, Augusta - 9:00 AM.
7/10/08 - PACTS Transit Committee - Saco City Hall - 9:30 AM.
6/12/08 - PACTS Transit Committee - GPCOG - 9:30 AM.
6/11/08 - Maine/NH Traffic Incident Management Group - Communications Subcommittee - Kittery Town Hall - 9:00 AM.
6/10/08 - Kittery Area Comprehensive Transportaton Committee (KACTS), Kittery Town Hall - 2:00 PM. Click here for Agenda.
5/29/08 - New Hampshire DOT will be holding a public hearing regarding Route 1 Memorial Bridge rehabilitation between Kittery and Portsmouth - Kittery Trading Post - 7:00 PM. For NH DOT's announcement, click here. For Memorial Bridge Rehab Project's Fact Sheet, click here.
5/19/08 - NHDOT Project Manager for the Route 1 Memorial Bridge rehabilitation will be discussing project at a joint meeting between Maine & New Hampshire Route 1 Committees - Kittery Trading Post - 9:00 AM. Click for Agenda.
5/9/08 - Maine/New Hampshire Traffic Incident Management Meeting - York Library - 12:00 PM. Lunch will be provided so, Click here to Register. Click here for Agenda. Click here for After Action Report - 2/19/08, Notes of 3/7/08 and Communications Subcommittee 4/8/08.
5/9/08 - Re-scheduled Finding Common Ground: Advancing Our Regional Economy - Great Bay Community College (formerly NH Community Tech College). Pease Campus, NH - 9:00 AM - 11:30 AM. Click here for agenda.
