MaineDOT Work Plan Calendar Years 2019-2020-2021 February 2019 February 21, 2019 MaineDOT Customers and Partners: On behalf of the 2,000 valued employees of the Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT), I am privileged to present this 2019 Edition of our Work Plan for the three Calendar Years 2019, 2020 and 2021. Implementation of this plan allows us to achieve our mission of responsibly providing our customers with the safest and most reliable transportation system possible, given available resources. Like all recent editions, this Work Plan includes all capital projects and programs, maintenance and operations activities, planning initiatives, and administrative functions. This plan contains 2,193 individual work items with a total value of $2.44 billion, consisting principally of work to be delivered or coordinated through MaineDOT, but also including funding and work delivered by other transportation agencies that receive federal funds directly including airports and transit agencies. Although I have the pleasure of presenting this plan, it is really the product of staff efforts dating back to the summer of last year. Like all Work Plans, that process included making adjustments to projects that had already appeared in prior Work Plans, including changes to cost, schedule, scope, or available funding. Once those projects are made viable for delivery, new projects and work items are added - principally in the third year of the plan - which in this case is Calendar Year 2021. As determined during this months-long process, this Work Plan reflects three focus areas: safety, innovation, and downtown improvements. First and foremost, safety continues to be the top priority in all MaineDOT activities. Safety performance on the transportation system across the United States has been trending in the wrong direction in recent years, with vehicle crashes, injuries and fatalities increasing with the continued growth in vehicle miles traveled. To combat this trend, a new Office of Safety was created to conduct data- driven, system-wide safety analysis of our highway network to identify problem areas and develop solutions to eliminate safety hazards. The results of that analysis imbedded within the Work Plan including continued addition of rumble strips to combat lane departure, targeted outreach to communities that have experienced clusters of pedestrian crashes, upgrades to guardrail systems, spot improvements to troublesome intersections and areas identified through data collection and analysis as having a high risk of vehicles going off the road, and work on I-295 north of Portland, where crash incidence is high, including improvement projects and safety patrols. Second, innovation is not only important, but is required to help meet the needs and demands of the system and its modern-day users. MaineDOT is investing in Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) including technology to identify and communicate information to travelers relating traffic delays due from, construction, congestion, crashes, and poor road conditions due to weather. These efforts include improved changeable message signs, Amber alerts, and preparing for integration of connected or autonomous vehicles. Finally, this Work Plan makes targeted investments in downtowns around the state. The communities of Hallowell, Bar Harbor, and Ogunquit have recently undergone downtown reconstructions, while improvements in Fryeburg, Woodstock and Kingfield are funded in this Work Plan, with the help of partial funding from a recent federal BUILD grant award. In addition, MaineDOT and our partners are also investing in Active Transportation, recreational trails, improved access to schools and ADA sidewalk improvements, much of it in our downtown areas. As we transition to future Work Plans, I look forward to working with the policy makers, transportation agency partners, and industry to take a fresh look at priorities and service levels and establish updated transportation policy goals. These goals might include raising the bar to improve the system, not just treading water; maintaining Maine’s brand of safe and easy travel, which will help recruitment of new workers; minimizing the financial burden on Mainers; reducing transportation’s impact on climate; and increasing predictable, sustainable funding sources, which would allow a gradual reduction in the dependence on bonding over time. I am truly honored to be part of MaineDOT again. I am confident that we will deliver the work for our customers on time and within our means. Although we work in obscurity much of the time, there are few other teams who do so much to improve the safety, economic prosperity, and quality of life for people who live, work, and travel in our great state. Please use the Work Plan to learn what MaineDOT is doing in your community and your region. As always, I invite you to let me know what we can do to better serve you, our customers, now and into the future. Respectfully, Bruce A. Van Note Commissioner Contents Introduction The MaineDOT Work Plan - Calendar Years 2019-2020-2021 ................................................................... i Resource Assumptions and Resource Allocation ........................................................................................... i . Resource Assumptions ..................................................................................................................... i . Federal Funding ............................................................................................................................... i . State Funding ................................................................................................................................... i . Multimodal State Funding................................................................................................................. ii . Grants ............................................................................................................................................. ii . MPI/BPI Programs ........................................................................................................................... ii . VW Settlement Funds ....................................................................................................................... ii . Funding Sources and Uses ................................................................................................................ iii . Asset Management ............................................................................................................................ iv . Resource Allocation .......................................................................................................................... iv Project Prioritization and Selection ................................................................................................................ v Statewide Operations ....................................................................................................................................... v . Highway and Bridge Maintenance Operations .............................................................................. vi . Multimodal Operations ................................................................................................................... vi . Passenger Rail Operations ............................................................................................................... vi . Transit Operations ............................................................................................................................ vi . Ferry Service Operations .................................................................................................................. vii . Aviation Operations .......................................................................................................................... vii Capital Projects and Programs ....................................................................................................................... vii . Highway and Bridge Capital Work ................................................................................................ vii . Multimodal Capital Work ............................................................................................................... x . Statewide Capital Programs ............................................................................................................. x Transportation Needs and Goals .................................................................................................................... xi Reading the Work Plan ................................................................................................................................... 1 . Work Plan Tabs ............................................................................................................................... 1 . Tips on Using This Work Plan .......................................................................................................... 1 Counties Androscoggin ………………………………………………………………...………………………….. 2 Aroostook …………………………………………………………………............................................... 11 Cumberland ………………………………………………………………............................................... 28 Franklin …………………………………………………………………................................................. 52 Hancock …………………………………………………………………….. ………………………….. 60 Kennebec ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 69 Knox ……………………………………………………………………………………………………... 81 Lincoln