PRESQUE ISLE, Maine — On Thursday, the Maine Department of Transportation said it would finish repaving a 10-mile stretch of Route 1 between Presque Isle and Caribou by August.
The Maine DOT said it had removed pavement from 7 ½ miles of the road since it began construction work on June 24, 2019. Workers will remove 2 ½ miles more on the northern side of Route 1 within the coming months
The entire 10-mile stretch of road will then be repaved, in a project the DOT expects to be finished by Aug. 1.
All lanes of traffic from Presque Isle to Caribou will be kept open “for the most part,” according to the DOT. The only changes will be on some narrow sections of the road that Maine DOT Public Information Officer Paul Merrill said are “too narrow” to safely accommodate two-lane traffic.
Merrill said that the DOT will employ “ flaggers or temporary traffic signals to keep those sections of the road to one lane during construction.
“For example, northbound traffic will go through, while southbound traffic is stopped and then vice-versa,” Merrill said.
