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2023 AARP Community Challenge Grantee
Project Category
Transportation
└ Walkability
└ Walkability
Walk audits will ensure intergenerational community design input for two MaineDOT-funded traffic and pedestrian safety modification projects and one in the planning phase. The sites require traffic calming to make it safer for pedestrians, including older residents
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