Monday, April 6, 2009—An ad hoc collection of citizens from both sides of the Piscataqua have begun organizing to pressure Maine politicians and bureaucrats to preserve both the Memorial and Sarah Mildred Long bridges.
A $1.3 million “Maine-New Hampshire Connections Study,” to “evaluate the long-term viability of the bridges connecting Kittery, Maine and Portsmouth, New Hampshire over the Piscataqua River” is now underway. A “public informational meeting will be scheduled for late April,” according to an official press release.
The as-yet-unnamed citizens group is making plans to assure that HNTB Corp., the firm conducting the study, gets an earful. More details will be available very soon.
Our Memorial Bridge page has just been updated, with links to four stories published within the past week, in addition to one story from early February, which had previously eluded us.