The Maine Department of Transportation will be doing overnight paving work on ramps along Route 1 in Bath early next week. Between 9 p.m. on Sunday, July 26 and 6 a.m. on Monday, July 27, crews will be paving the northbound off-ramp at Congress Avenue and the northbound on-ramp from State Road. The ramps need to be closed to conduct the paving operations due to the size of equipment and safety of the traveling public and workers. Closing the ramps during operations will allow the work to be conducted more efficiently, thus reducing the time frame of closure and disruption to traffic. Detour routes will be marked with signs and digital message boards. Like all outside construction work, this schedule is weather-dependent.

This ramp work is part of a larger paving project on Route 1 that stretches more than five miles from the Cook's Corner Interchange in Brunswick to the Bath Viaduct and Sagadahoc Bridge. Northeast Paving is the contractor on this project. The current contract amount is $17,062,959.