Maine increasing ‘Rail Path’ community close to New Hampshire border

FRYEBURG, Maine — Maine is changing an inactive set of rail tracks into a brand new leisure path that can run from the southern a part of the state to shut to the New Hampshire border.

Democratic Gov. Janet Mills has signed a invoice to create the brand new strolling and biking path, which can stretch 40 miles from Standish to Fryeburg alongside the Mountain Division Rail Line. The brand new path is designed to finally join with Portland at its jap edge and New Hampshire within the west.

The associated fee to carry out the work of eradicating the present monitor and changing it with an interim path is estimated to be about $20.1 million, state data present. The invoice directs the Maine Division of Transportation to do the work “topic to obtainable funding assets, allowing and municipal agreements.”