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[RoadsAroundME main page] Maine State Route 15A
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Termini and Mileage (2006)

Termini
Main alignment: (decommissioned) to (decommissioned)
Mileage
Main alignment: 0.0 miles (total over all segments)
 

Notes and History

 ME 15A was a bypass alignment between Corinth and the west side of Charleston, avoiding Charleston Centre to which ME 15 was originally routed with then-ME 11. First designated in 1950, it persisted until 1960 until it was decommissioned and ME 15 shifted to it, leaving ME 11 alone on the Charleston alignment (but see ME 11A). Strangely, it continues to appear on some maps, though not official state maps, well into the 1970s; another interesting thing is that an alignment corresponding to the future routing existed as far back as 1935, so the idea wasn't new.

JP Kirby mentions 15A may also have been a later designation for former ME 172A when ME 172 south of Sedgwick was truncated in favour of ME 15. This does not appear on any of my route logs.

 
Additional Photographs

 
[Thumbnail image. Select for 640x480.] ME 11 at modern ME 15, former ME 15A. Previously, ME 15 was co-routed along ME 11 north (this picture faces south) into Charleston; ME 15A was built heading off to the right. ME 15 was subsequently transferred to ME 15A and the alternate designation was removed.
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