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Option 1 includes continuous sidewalks and/or a shared-use path that connects to
the Pleasant Street and Maine Street sidewalks and the Androscoggin Brunswick-
Topsham Riverwalk. The Riverwalk crosses the river on the historic Swinging Bridge
pedestrian bridge.
Option 1 removes the at-grade pedestrian crosswalk that crosses Mill Street at the
Cushing Street intersection.
Pedestrians and bicyclists
instead cross the road via a
proposed pedestrian
overpass adjacent to the east
side of the railroad bridge.
A 500-foot-long shared-use
path is constructed
southeast of the Mill Street
pedestrian overpass to
connect the residential
neighborhood streets to the trail and sidewalk network. The pedestrian bridge
requires a 400-foot-long bicyclist and pedestrian ramp along the Androscoggin River
to provide access to the bridge from street level.
Option 1 also includes replacement of the existing railroad bridge over Mill Street
with a longer bridge to accommodate the wider Mill Street roadway section
underneath.
4.9.2 Option 2
Option 2 (Figure 4-16) differs from Option 1 primarily in that Mill Street is expanded
to include two through
lanes in each direction.
This provides lane
continuity to the proposed
four-lane Pleasant Street
cross-section included in
Strategy 2B. The Option 2
four-lane design results in
only a modest increase in
slope impacts compared
to Option 1 because the
Option 1 westbound lane
width needs to be wider than one standard lane. The raised median in combination
with a single lane necessitates the wider section so that motorists have the ability to
pass a disabled vehicle.
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