FRYEBURG, Maine — A selectman Monday made an impassioned plea to Maine's transportation commissioner to undo curbing changes in the downtown near the First Congregational Church.
The commissioner, Bruce Van Note, was taken aback by the request to make road wider and said it motivated him to visit the town to see the situation first-hand.Â
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For them to obliterate parking spaces in front of any business in any town is the height of immorality. I feel like they're coming through here like an evil authority figure and making rules about what we can and can't have when they're supposed to be helping us. The curbs serve a number of good purposes and should not be put in to permanently obliterate parking or to block drivers from exiting the road when they need to. I do not think the residents here should be defenseless. They should have been invited to participate in the planning of what would and would not be changed before the construction started. Maybe we need some new laws written so a construction won't be permitted to ruin things a town like this one.
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