The local road situation

To the Editor;

I do a fair amount of traveling each year. Just this week I took the scenic tour via U.S. Route 2 to New Hampshire to attend our great-grandson’s football game. Twelve hours in my vehicle on decent roads.

Today I needed to do a few errands in Dover-Foxcroft. It’s a toss up when leaving Abbot whether to bump along busy Route 15 or drive on the Back Road and endure the deep culvert holes on High Street in Guilford. Why haven’t these holes been patched, or better yet, why wasn’t this street paved recently when the pavers were doing other streets in town? It’s definitely one of the busiest streets in town.

Library Street is another street in Guilford that is barely passable.

I understand that it is the DOT’s decision to wait another year to surface Route 15 south of Abbot Village. Not a wise decision on their part since this is a heavily traveled highway to many vacation destinations. High Street in Guilford should be smoother once snow arrives and the culvert holes fill in and freeze. Good luck to the plow driver those first few storms!

In the meantime, I’m turning into a “snowbird” and “leaving on a jet plane.”

Joyce Lander
Abbot