Most of the engineers who were part of the design teams planning, designing and building the highways in Maine from the 1950s through the 1970s have retired. Moreover, that was the ‘golden years’ for highway construction in Maine when most of its limited-access highways were built. The knowledge of how the planning, design and construction of those highways occurred is starting to wane. The objective of this project was to have influential engineers from the ‘golden years’ of road construction give seminars where they presented highlights from their careers and to document how large projects in the state of Maine were done and what can be learned from this for future large projects. Three ‘top’ Department of Transportation engineers, together with people from the contractor side, became the focus of this effort of collecting institutional memories.
2023-06-30 | FHWA Highway History Website Articles
Abstract:
This is the story of a highway that couldn't make up its mind--the Pikes Peak Ocean to Ocean Highway (PPOO), one of the early transcontinental highway...
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