The Maine Local Roads Center provides training, technical assistance, and information to those municipal and county personnel who are responsible for constructing, maintaining, and managing local roads and bridges in Maine. As part of MaineDOT’s ongoing highway safety efforts, our Local Roads Center administers a hardware acquisition program which provides a variety of highway safety signage and hardware devices to municipalities:
- Speed Feedback Signs – solar powered radar speed signs that measure the speed of approaching vehicles and inform drivers they are exceeding the posted speed limit.
- Rectangular Rapid Flashing Beacons (RRFBs) – RRFBs are a pedestrian crossing sign combined with an intensely flashing beacon that is only activated when a pedestrian is present. They are intended for mid-block crosswalks only.
- School Zone Signage – provides flashing school zone signs/lights. This enhanced solar powered equipment comes with programmable radar speed feedback signs.
Other useful safety resources available through MaineDOT’s local road center can be found on the Traffic issues and Work Zone Safety and Flagger information pages.