WTAG-TV? I-86

[vzeej5wn@myfairpoint.net]

The Airline is WAY better than it used to be in the days when it was 
narrow, hilly, badly paved, and full of curves and dips.  It's been 
considerably widened and straightened in recent years, and one can 
actually get from Bangor to Calais in about two hours, maybe even a 
little less.  That having been said, however, the road is still 
treacherous in the winter and in fog.  There's a good bit of truck 
traffic on it, and moose can pop out of the woods anytime.  When it's 
nice out, it's a pretty drive.   -Doug



Quoting Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net>:
> I was in Calias one night and the locals flat out told me I was not
> driving 'The Airline' that night because of fog and we wound up in St
> Stephen for the evening. 
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> That road is no picnic in sunshine either. 
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> On 11/25/09, vzeej5wn@myfairpoint.net <vzeej5wn@myfairpoint.net> wrote:
> > You can say that again.  The idea seems to have been, "Let's lay out a
> > route from Portland to Calais and make it as convoluted as possible."
> >
> > Even more confusing is the numbered highway layout on the Blue Hill
> > peninsula, on the east side of Penobscot Bay.  Look at it on a map,
> > check out the three-digit route numbers, and see if you can figure it
> > out.  It's at least as entertaining as "Where's Waldo?".    -Doug
> >
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> > Quoting Kevin Vahey <kvahey@comcast.net>:
> >> I think you can count the number of people in Maine that call the road
> >> between Bangor-Calias as Route 9 on one hand. It is 'The Airline'
> >>
> >> Maine SR 9 has to be the strangest road in the US. No matter where you
> >> go in Maine it seems to appear :)
> >>
> >> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine_State_Route_9
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