AUGUSTA, Maine - The Maine Department of Transportation has opened a new $14 million facility in Augusta that houses a number of DOT activities, as well as the statewide mobile radio operations for all state agencies.
DOT Commissioner David Bernhardt says the new facility will save money.
"We will be saving around $1.4 million per year," Bernhardt said. "That's a tremendous amount of money. I got to tell you - that would pay for the January blizzard that we just had."
Bernhardt says the facility is designed so that it can be enlarged in the future to handle other state government activities, including those from other agencies.
Construction of the facility started last May, and agencies completed the move by the end of the year.
