Summary
Motorists heading south on the Maine Turnpike on Labor Day ran into a 19-mile-long traffic jam as they approached the New Hampshire border.
The culprit wasn't the York toll plaza. Traffic never breached the plaza's capacity of 4,000 cars per hour, turnpike officials say. In fact, as soon as drivers paid the $2 toll, they hit a traffic jam south of the plaza.See the full content of this document
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It ... If Only They Could Get to It.
The real bottleneck is the Piscataqua River Bridge at the New Hampshire border, said Peter Mills, the Maine Turnpike Authority's interim executive director.
Every Labor Day and on Sundays in August, he said, the bridge causes traffic to back up from the border north through the Yor...See the full content of this document
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