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In an age of hyper-partisanship and funding instability, the Maine Legislature’s Transportation Committee continues to be a role model for bipartisan leadership and commonsense solutions. They deserve to be thanked for showing the road forward doesn’t need to be a rocky one!

For decades, Maine didn’t invest enough in our roads, bridges, and transportation infrastructure, and that cost our economy and our pocketbooks big time — at least $1,800 per driver each year in areas like Bangor. This is due to higher vehicle operating costs, traffic crashes, and congestion-related delays, according to the national transportation research nonprofit TRIP .

The previous Legisl

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