Wiscasset is considering Plan B, many months since its plan to reroute traffic around the town center finally fell through.

Remember the bypass plan? That fell victim to the town’s angst about cutting downtown merchants out of the tourist traffic as well as state belttightening, with a dose of environmental concern about an island inhabited by eagles.

So it’s back to the drawing board tonight at Town Hall.

And what is Plan B? Could it mean a rehash of the widening plan? A traffic calming and pedestrian training system? Something new?

Time will tell if anything is workable. In the meantime, it’s important to remember a few important things about the way to Wiscasset in the summertime.

If it’s tourist season, the saying goes, why can’t we shoot them? That’s more than a bit harsh, but for anyone who has traversed the U.S. Route 1 corridor from Bath to Wiscasset — only to be trapped behind RVs, overheating cars and overheating tempers — one might well wish that the tourists were somewhere — anywhere — but here.

The problem is, they’re so very profitable.

We live in Vacationland year-round. Pity the tourists; they have to go back to New York or Hartford or Philadelphia or wherever after a mere week or two.

Plus, we know the backroads and they don’t — yet, anyway (Now … if only there were a secret bridge over the Sheepscot).

Yes, the way to Wiscasset is a mess. But most of the year it’s not a problem, so what do you do?

A few modest proposals.

First, pedestrian traffic in Wiscasset must change.

A pedestrian tunnel, or a pedestrian bridge, would go a long way to ending the gridlock in town, while keeping visitors — who often wander rather mindlessly into traffic near Red’s Eats — safe. Red’s Eats itself could be moved a few blocks from where it currently is, although that’s perhaps not an option that appeals to them. Still, they could be asked nicely.

The Route 1 corridor has waterways and a railway. In the not-too-distant past, that was how people got around the Mid-coast. Steamships plied the waters between Harpswell and Rockland; trains from Brunswick to Rockland also brought visitors up by rail.

Towns along the corridor need to get their collective acts together, along with Maine Eastern Railroad, and find a steamship operator willing to provide service, perhaps even car-ferry service, in this neck of the woods. A water bypass, or a rail service, would serve the corridor well, while leaving the roads for those who must use them.

We also continue to believe the economics work for seasonal light rail along existing easements from Kittery all the way to Belfast. A Maine Coast Rail Pass for a week of worry-free vacation travel might appeal to more than a few stressed out vacationers, who could shop in Freeport, dine in Portland and take whaling adventures out of Rockland without ever having to park, pay a toll or sit in traffic with we dangerously fuming natives.

In any case, not a thing will happen in the near future. And like Wiscasset traffic in July, we’ll sit and wait.

So remember: Tourist money keeps Maine clean and green all winter.

For the next few years, get your favorite music together, get a drink and remember to use the toilet before you leave home in the summer.

Then relax. They’re gone after Labor Day. Maine is yours to keep forever.