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Issue Position: THE DECLINE OF PHYSICAL AND SOCIAL CONNECTIVITY AS THE CAUSE OF FIFTY YEARS OF POVERTY AND THE EAST-WEST HIGHWAY

Issue Position

Date: Oct. 24, 2012
Location: Unkown

Whenever state government turns its back on building infrastructure (roads, railways, airports and marine terminals) in rural areas, those populations become even more disconnected and rural. There has been a trajectory of precipitous economic decline in Washington County region over the past fifty years--and it is accelerating principally due to lack of modern infrastructure.

The removal of the extracted raw resource before complete processing represents a net loss of jobs and wealth to this region.

Everywhere in Maine where resource extraction has diminished, there has been incremental replacement by technology and healthcare coincident with improvements in all forms of transportation. Not so in Washington County.

The current proposal for the privately funded construction of the East-West Highway between Atlantic Canada and Montreal as a gateway to middle America and middle Canada is very hopeful for all northern Maine and DownEast Washington County.


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