There’s that bike lane we mentioned. And look, parallel parking. Our guess is that most people will just avoid parking on this side of the street. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Look at that nice new crosswalk made of pavers. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Okay, so maybe the construction crews didn’t put up this awesome sign, but it is totally worth showing you anyway. Nice watch, Eli! Maybe it will help you with clock management? (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Follow the red-brick road. Or take a load off on one of those granite blocks, either way. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Yes, School Street is still one-way, going away from Main Street. One driver missed that memo during construction. (It’s okay, it happens to the best of us.) (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
Jason Lebel from Stoneage Stoneworks out of Berwick, Maine, presses some pavers into place using some contraption that saves him from having to bend over and break his back doing it by hand. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
One of the bumpouts on the sidewalk provides some granite blocks to sit on, a now-leafless tree to gaze at and some receptacles to throw your trash or recyclables in. Not bad. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
That’s a new light post, with a new tree behind it, sitting in a new planting bed, and there are new benches behind that. Impressive! (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
What in the world are those ring things? No, they’re not gymnastics equipment. What they are is bike racks. Now with the new bike lanes on the street, it wouldn’t be prudent not to have new places to lock those bikes up, would it? (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
You can find planting beds like this one all over North Main Street now. (TIM GOODWIN / Insider staff)
After a long construction process, work has finally wrapped up on North Main Street. No more trucks, slabs of bricks and pavers, crews of (friendly) construction workers or open ditches. No more one-way traffic on the main road, either, which is nice. But really it was worth it cause the whole thing looks nice, so kudos to the city and Severino Trucking for doing such a fine job. Also, kudos to everyone else who showed patience during the whole project.
