MAINE PUBLIC • September 19, 2024
Scarborough officials have narrowly voted to delay withdrawing the town’s support for a controversial toll highway planned west of Portland. Despite a town hall packed with opponents of the Gorham Connector, a resolution against the four-lane roadway failed on a procedural vote Wednesday night. A majority of the seven member council wanted to vote on the resolution immediately after officials from the Maine Turnpike Authority and Maine Department of Transportation presented updates regarding the development. But there wasn’t a super majority on the seven member council needed to suspend meeting rules and add the resolution to the meeting agenda.