MAINE STATE LEGISLATURE The following document is provided by the LAW AND LEGISLATIVE DIGITAL LIBRARY at the Maine State Law and Legislative Reference Library http://legislature.maine.gov/lawlib Reproduced from electronic originals (may include minor formatting differences from printed original) * ~·:· MaineDOT Three-Year ork Plan 2020 Edition January 14, 2020 January 14, 2020 MaineDOT Customers and Partners: On behalf of the 1,800 dedicated and valued employees at the Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT), I am privileged to present this 2020 Edition of our Work Plan for the three calendar years 2020, 2021, and 2022. This Work Plan includes all capital projects and programs, maintenance and operations activities, planning initiatives, and administrative functions. This plan contains 2,051 individual work items with a total value of $2.59 billion, consisting principally of work to be delivered or coordinated through MaineDOT, but also including funding and work by other transportation agencies including airports and transit agencies. This plan is the primary way that MaineDOT achieves its mission of responsibly providing our customers with the safest and most reliable transportation system possible, given available resources. Preparing the MaineDOT Work Plan takes many months. An early step is to adjust projects that had appeared in prior work plans, including changes to cost, schedule, scope, or available funding. In a typical year, we make the “old” projects whole and then add new capital projects worth hundreds of millions of dollars (principally in the third year of the plan). This year is not typical. Due to cost increases arising from workforce challenges, work constraints, and other factors, making the old projects whole has required an extraordinary amount of funding. Therefore, even though total estimated funding will increase (largely due to increased levels of federal competitive grant funds), higher unit costs will yield substantially lower levels of capital project production in terms of miles of paving, numbers of bridges, etc. Accordingly, this Work Plan largely consists of spreading what used to be two years of capital projects over three years to stay within funding and cost constraints. This fiscal challenge required us to prioritize even more and rely on less-reliable bond and competitive federal grant funding for basic needs. With lower levels of capital project production, we are focusing on essential safety needs, bridges, maintaining the level of Light Capital Paving (skinny mix) program as long as Highway Fund revenues allow, and implementing low-cost holding actions to even higher priority roads, consisting of patching until normal treatments become fiscally possible. Even with these efforts, the fiscal reality is that we are now competently managing a slow decline of our transportation system until bipartisan funding solutions materialize. The system will not fail immediately, and we will do our best to avoid any serious safety impacts. But holding actions only work for a short time, and the reliability of the system will suffer. Maine deserves better. Transportation is fundamental to our safety, economic prosperity, and quality of life. It is fundamental to everything we do and who we are. Not only do we need adequate funding to maintain the system we have, but we also need to improve the system. We need to make targeted capacity improvements, reduce the impact of transportation on climate, improve downtowns and villages, increase programs for municipalities, and gradually reduce our dependence upon bonding and extraordinary federal funding to meet basic needs. Despite the scope of the challenge, I am optimistic, because Maine is still a place where reasonable people with differing views can come together and get big things done for the common good. I look forward to continuing to work with the Blue Ribbon Commission To Study and Recommend Funding Solutions for the State’s Transportation Systems, other policy makers, other transportation agencies, municipalities, and industry partners to find bipartisan agreement on sustainable and adequate funding. The time for a transformative funding discussion is now. Decades of personnel reductions, belt tightening, intense prioritizing, standard lowering, grant writing, and patching have delayed the conversation as long as possible. It is time to address state transportation funding in Maine. Our safety and economic prosperity are at stake. While the policy work of finding funding solutions occurs, you can rely on MaineDOT to continue to quietly and competently do the technical job of holding things together, minimizing safety and reliability impacts, assessing needs, and looking forward and planning the comprehensive multimodal transportation system we need in the future. I am humbled to be a member of the MaineDOT team. Our team members do great work every day. It is a true honor and privilege to serve Governor Mills and the people of this great state. Respectfully, Bruce A. Van Note Commissioner Contents I. Introduction……………………………………………………………………………………………………………… i A. Sources of Funds……………………………………………………………………………………………… ii 1. State Highway Fund Revenue…………………………………………………………………………... iii 2. Federal Funds……………………………………………………………………………………………. iii a. Federal Highway Formula Funds…………………………………………………………………. iii b. Federal Multimodal Funds Received by MaineDOT…………………………………………….. iv c. Federal Multimodal Funds Received Directly by Transportation Partners……………………. iv d. Federal Competitive Grants……………………………………………………………………….. iv 3. Bonding…………………………………………………………………………………………………… vi a. State General Obligation Bonds…………………………………………………………………… vi b. GARVEE Bonds……………………………………………………………………………………. vi 4. State Multimodal Funding………………………………………………………………………………. vii 5. Municipal Matching Funds……………………………………………………………………………… vii 6. Other Funding Sources………………………………………………………………………………….. vii 7. Previously Programmed Funds…………………………………………………………………………. viii 8. Adjusting to Funding Uncertainty……………………………………………………………………… viii B. Uses of Funds…………………………………………………………………………………………………... viii 1. Principles and Processes…………………………………………………………………………………… viii a. Asset Management: Rational, Data Driven and Customer Focused………………………………. viii b. Resource Allocation: Funding Eligibility and System Priorities………………………………….. ix c. Project Selection Process……………………………………………………………………………… x 2. Breakdown and Description of Uses of Funds……………………………………………………………. x a. Capital Work…………………………………………………………………………………………… x i. Highway and Bridge Capital Projects…………………………………………………………… xi ii. Multimodal Capital Work………………………………………………………………………... xiv iii. Statewide Capital Programs…………………………………………………………………….. xiv b. Operations Activities………………………………………………………………………………….. xv i. Highway and Bridge Maintenance and Operations……………………………………………. xv ii. Multimodal Operations………………………………………………………………………….. xv iii. Statewide Operations…………………………………………………………………………… xvi C. Unmet Need…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. xvi II. Reading the Work Plan ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 1 A. Work Plan Tabs ………………………………………………………………………………………………. 1 B. Tips on Using This Work Plan……………………………………………………………………………….. 1 III. Project Listings A. Counties • Androscoggin ………………………………………………………………...………………………….. 2 • Aroostook …………………………………………………………………......................................... ….. 12 • Cumberland ………………………………………………………………............................................... 27 • Franklin ………………………………………………………………….................................................. 49 • Hancock ……………………………………………………………………..………………………….... 55 • Kennebec ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 64 • Knox ……………………………………………………………………………………………………… 74 • Lincoln …………………………………………………………………………………………………… 80 • Oxford ……………………………………………………………………………………….................... 86 • Penobscot ………………………………………………………………………………………………… 95 • Piscataquis ………………………………………………………………….............................................. 111 • Sagadahoc ………………………………………………………………………………………………... 114 • Somerset ………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 117 • Waldo …………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 124 • Washington …………………………………………………………………………………..................... 128 • York …………………………………………………………………………………………………......... 133 B. Statewide Capital Programs ………………………………………………………………………………….. 144 C. Statewide Operations …………………………………………………………………………………………. 159 IV. Municipal Index ………………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 214 V. Work Plan Terms and Definitions ………………………………………………………………………………………. 222 MaineDOT’s Three-Year Work Plan 2020 Edition Introduction This Work Plan describes all work planned by the Maine Department of Transportation (MaineDOT) and its transportation partners for the three calendar years (CY) 2020, 2021, and 2022. Published early each calendar year, all MaineDOT work plans since 2013 include all capital projects and programs, maintenance and operations activities, planning initiatives, and administrative functions for three calendar years,1 which in this case ends December 31, 2022. This Work Plan contains 2,051 work items with a total value of $2.59 billion, consisting primarily of work delivered or coordinated through MaineDOT, but also including funds to be expended by transportation agencies that receive federal funds directly, including airports and transit agencies. This Work Plan is the primary way that MaineDOT achieves its mission of responsibly providing our customers with the safest and most reliable transportation system possible, given available resources.