CHAPTER 362

H.P. 1147 - L.D. 1565

An Act To Authorize a Pilot Project To Allow Commercial

Vehicles at Canadian Weight Limits Access to the Woodland

Commercial Park in Baileyville

Be it enacted by the People of the State of Maine as follows:

Sec. 1. 29-A MRSA §2354-A is enacted to read:

§2354-A.__Pilot project to allow commercial vehicles at Canadian

weight limits access to Woodland Commercial Park in

Baileyville

1.__Pilot project.__Notwithstanding section 2354, the Commissioner of Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Public Safety and the Department of the Secretary of State, is authorized to conduct a pilot project that allows certain commercial vehicles at Canadian gross vehicle weight limits to travel from the planned Calais - St. Stephen, New Brunswick bridge to the junction of U.S. Route 1 and U.S. Route 9 in Baileyville.__This pilot project must include the following conditions and components.

A.__The new bridge and access road must be__open to all traffic, with the only allowable route of travel under the pilot project being from the United States-Canada border to the intersection of the access road and U.S. Route 1 and then westerly on U.S. Route 1 to the intersection of U.S. Route 1 and U.S. Route 9 in Baileyville.