Title

Program: Official Dedication of the Industrial Spur, Bangor, Maine, October 30, 1959

Alternative Title

Dedication of the Industrial Spur at the Interstate Spur Overpass at Main Street, Bangor, October 30, 1959

Creator

Maine. State Highway Commission

Date

1959

Description

Just over two years ago one of those modern marvels of construction machinery, a backhoe, crooked its steel arm into the air near the Bangor City Hospital and dug its steel fingers into the earth. It was the first ground broken for Interstate highway construction in the Queen City. Today, 3/4 of a million yards of earth later (plus quantities of concrete, steel and gravel equally as astronomical in their proportions) traffic is humming over the broad four lane highway of the Industrial Spur from the Main Street interchange to Odlin Road. Traffic recorders are busily clicking off over 6000 vehicles a day. The Spur will not only "tap off" thousands of vehicles a day from Hammond and Union Streets and relieve congestion in the downtown area, it will also make Bangor's new industrial areas near the Spur attractive to firms seeking new and more functional quarters. A modern highway to serve these industrial areas ha-s been a dream of the city's progressive citizens a dozen years or more. Now that dream has been realized in rugged, long-lasting asphalt, steel and concrete.

Contents

Program--The Interstate Highway Story in Bangor--Map--Glossary of Highway Terms--Interstate Projects in Bangor Through to Stillwater Avenue, Orono--Projects Completed or Under Contract--Proposed Projects

Subject

City planning--Maine--Bangor

Express highway interchanges--Maine--Bangor

Interstate 95--Design and construction

Roads--Interchanges and intersections

Roads--Maine--Bangor

Type

Illustrated works

Programs (Publications)

Spatial Coverage

Bangor (Me.)

Temporal Coverage

Nineteen fifties

Twentieth century

Language

English

Is Part Of

Bangor Public Library Special Collections

Rights