The Brunswick-Topsham Bridge Design Advisory Committee will continue to hone in on its recommendations for a replacement of the Frank J. Wood Bridge Wednesday night.

The meeting will be held on the second floor at the Brunswick Town Hall and starts at 6 p.m.

The committee will revisit its mission statement and design goals before it begins looking at a decision-making framework covering the various aspects of the bridge design the DAC has discussed.

The Frank J. Wood Bridge, known as the Green Bridge, carries traffic along Route 201 over the Androscoggin River between Brunswick and Topsham.

Those components have included views from the bridge, placement of railings, seating, the width of shoulders, surface treatments, lighting, the connection of pedestrian features on the bridge and abutting parks, as well as the memorialization of past bridges possibly through art, park design and landscaping.

The committee will also talk about the next steps and the process of wrapping up its work.

The Brunswick-Topsham Bridge Design Advisory Committee was formed in June 2016 with stakeholders from Brunswick and Topsham. Its job is to ensure that the final design of the new bridge best meets both the state’s responsibility to meet the public’s transportation needs, and incorporates the aesthetic and functional needs and preferences of Topsham and Brunswick, to the degree that is financially feasible. The committee is working with the Maine Department of Transportation to optimize the final design for the bridge.

The MDOT has not yet released a recommendation to either replace or rehabilitate the bridge. A federal review of historic and environmental impacts the bridge project poses is expected to conclude as early as March.

The MDOT work plan released last week has the Frank J. Wood Bridge replacement project slated to happen in 2018 or 2019 with $14.9 million in funding attached to the project.

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