TRENTON, Maine — Traffic on Route 3 between Trenton and Mount Desert Island was snarled Saturday as a construction crew made repairs after a culvert near the Hancock County-Bar Harbor Airport in Trenton failed at about 9 a.m. during morning rains.
At 11 a.m., traffic in both directions was backed up more than a mile, with Hancock County Sheriff’s Department deputies handling traffic control north of the causeway and Bar Harbor Police officers handling traffic on the Mount Desert Island side of the snarl. By 2 p.m. both agencies reported that traffic was “calming” and that the situation was slowly improving.
Route 3 provides the only vehicular access to and from Mount Desert Island.
Tragic.
Hope no one was injured.
Or late for work.
Safety first.
Is MDI really an island if you can wade to it at low tide?
Try doing that, let us know how it works out. Cant wade to it, from anywhere, swim no problem though.
I did. It worked out great. Thanks for your concern.
You waded from Trenton to Parkadia?
Folks digging worms do it every day, at low tied of course.
I think you have Thompson Island confused with MDI.
Like there is a huge difference.
If you read your post in a voice like Shaggy from Scooby-Doo it sounds like you totally agree with me.
that should have been tought of during contrution
Yes, the contrution phase is often overlooked.
A Culvert failure… A culvert has only one purpose and no moving parts. So its not the culverts fault its the UNITS who failed to put in the proper size.
Failure can be caused by factors other than improper size.
NOW THATS A CROCK, THERE WASN’T A DARN COP AROUND AT ELEVEN FOURTY FIVE
Right, the traffic was slow until ya got over those bad pot holes before the airport, but there was NOT a cop in sight anywhere, at 12 noon.
Was it a new or an old culvert that failed, or just that same mess we have been driving over for three weeks that caused the back up?
i heard the repair job was done by people in southern maine.. you would think they could have flown the repair parts to the airport instead of sending them in from southern maine to deal with the total screw up in the construction zone but no… . but then again common sense has never been the dot and goverment’s strength
Parts were brought up from Southern Maine because the company that won the contract is from Southern Maine. To me, the proper response should have been some phone calls to local companies to get whomever was capable for the quickest response time to fix the issue rather than keep it in house.
My heart and prayers go out to the people who were slightly inconvenienced and their families.
Oh the humanity!
There’s only one way off the island. Isn’t THAT the posted evacuation route? Heaven help them all if there is a hurricane or forest fire and a washed out culvert stops all traffic for hours.
The people “From Away” must have been impressed.
Culvert didnt fail the poor installation and backfill by the contractor failed.