Editing Bangor, Maine (section)

==Infrastructure==
[[File:PenobscotBridge.jpg|thumb|Penobscot Bridge]]

=== Road ===
Bangor sits along interstates [[Interstate 95 in Maine|I-95]] and [[Interstate 395 (Maine)|I-395]]; U.S. highways [[U.S. Route 1A in Maine|US 1A]], [[U.S. Route 2 in Maine|US 2]], [[U.S. Route 2A in Maine|US Route 2A]], [[U.S. Route 202|US 202]]; and state routes [[Maine State Route 9|SR 9]],  [[Maine State Route 15|SR 15]], [[Maine State Route 15 Business|SR 15 Business]], [[Maine State Route 100|SR 100]], and [[Maine State Route 222|SR 222]].  Three major bridges connect the city to neighboring [[Brewer, Maine|Brewer]]: [[Joshua Chamberlain]] Bridge (carrying US 1A), [[Penobscot River Bridge]] (carrying SR 15), and the Veterans Remembrance Bridge (carrying I-395).

Daily intercity bus service from Bangor proper is provided by two companies. [[Concord Coach Lines]] connects Bangor with Augusta, Portland, several towns in Maine's midcoast region, and Boston, Massachusetts. Cyr Bus Lines provides daily service to Caribou and several northern Maine towns along I-95 and Route 1.<ref name="cyr">{{cite web|url=http://johntcyrandsons.com/|title=CYR Bus Line: Maine: Charter Tours & Bus Services|work=Cyr Bus Lines: Maine}}</ref> The area is also served by [[Greyhound Lines|Greyhound]], which operates out of the Park and Ride lot at 360 Odlin Road.  West's Bus Service provides service between Bangor and [[Calais, Maine|Calais]].<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.westbusservice.com/|title=WEST BUS SERVICE|work=westbusservice.com}}</ref>

In 2011, [[Acadian Lines]] ended bus service to Saint John, New Brunswick, because of low ticket sales.<ref>{{cite web|title=Maine to Canada bus service to end|url=http://bangor.wcsh6.com/news/news/maine-canada-bus-service-end/56609|access-date=August 21, 2011|date=February 16, 2011|archive-date=May 22, 2016|archive-url=http://arquivo.pt/wayback/20160522204703/http://bangor.wcsh6.com/news/news/maine-canada-bus-service-end/56609|url-status=dead}}</ref>

The [[Community Connector]] system offers public transportation within Bangor and to adjacent towns such as Orono. There is also a seasonal (summer) shuttle between Bangor and [[Bar Harbor, Maine|Bar Harbor]].

===Rail===
[[File:Bangor Aroostook Logo 1918.jpg|thumb|Bangor Aroostook Railway Logo, 1918]]
Freight service is provided by [[Pan Am Railways]] and [[Central Maine and Quebec Railway]], the latter being a successor to locally based [[Bangor and Aroostook Railroad]] and [[Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway]].

Passenger rail service was provided most recently by the [[New Brunswick Southern Railway]], which in 1994 discontinued its route to [[Saint John, New Brunswick]].

For historic Bangor trolley service see [[Bangor Railway and Electric Company]].

====Rail accidents====
* 1869: The Black Island Railroad Bridge north of [[Old Town, Maine]] collapsed under the weight of a Bangor and Piscataquis Railroad train, killing 3 crew and injuring 7–8 others.<ref>[https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1869/09/02/79819540.pdf Fearful Railroad Accident] ''The New York Times'', September 2, 1869, p. 1</ref>
* 1871: A bridge in [[Hampden, Maine|Hampden]] collapsed under the weight of a [[Maine Central Railroad]] train approaching Bangor, killing 2 and injuring 50.<ref>''New York Times'', August 10, 1871</ref>
* 1898: A [[Maine Central Railroad]] train crashed near [[Orono, Maine|Orono]] killing 2 and fatally injuring 4. The president of the railroad and his wife were also on board in a private car, but escaped injury. [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1898/01/30/102068568.pdf Train Wrecked in Maine]
* 1899: The collapse of a gangway between a train and a waiting ferry at [[Mount Desert]] sent 200 members of a Bangor excursion party into the water, drowning 20.
* 1911: A head-on collision of two trains north of Bangor, in Grindstone, killed 15, including 5 members of the [[Presque Isle, Maine|Presque Isle]] Brass Band.<ref>''New York Times'', July 29, 1911</ref>

===Air===
[[Bangor International Airport]] {{Airport codes|BGR|KBGR}} is a joint civil-military public airport {{convert|3|mi|km|abbr=off}} west of the city. It has a single runway measuring {{convert|11439|by|200|ft|abbr=on}}. Bangor is the last (or first) American airport along the [[great circle route]] between the U.S. East Coast and Europe, and in the 1970s and '80s it was a refuelling stop, until the development of longer-range jets in the 1990s.<ref name="Clancey">Gregory Clancey, [http://usj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/12/2335 ''Local Memory and Worldly Narrative: The Remote City in America and Japan''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080829225841/http://usj.sagepub.com/cgi/content/abstract/41/12/2335 |date=August 29, 2008 }} in ''Urban Studies'', Vol. 41, No. 12, pp. 2335–2355 (2004)</ref>

===Healthcare===

====Hospitals====
Bangor is home to two large hospitals, the [[Eastern Maine Medical Center]] and the Catholic-affiliated St. Joseph Hospital.

====Pandemics====
In 1832, a [[cholera]] epidemic in Saint John, New Brunswick, (part of the [[Second cholera pandemic]]) sent as many as eight hundred poor Irish immigrants walking to Bangor. This was the beginning of Maine's first substantial Irish-Catholic community. Competition with Americans for jobs caused a riot and resulting fire in 1833.<ref name="Mundy" />  In 1849–50, the [[Second cholera pandemic]] reached Bangor itself, killing 20–30 within the first week,<ref>Austin Jacobs, ''A History and Description of New England'' (Boston, 1859), p. 46; see letter of Samuel Gilman to his wife, September 2, 1849, on-line at [http://www.mainememory.net/media/pdf/9531.pdf Maine Memory Network]</ref> 112 had died by October 1849.<ref>The Public Ledger (Newfoundland), October 2, 1849, p. 2</ref>  The final death toll was 161. A late outbreak of the disease in 1854 killed seventeen others. The victims in most cases were poor Irish immigrants.<ref>Williams, Chase, and Co., ''History of Penobscot County, Maine'' (1882), p. 714</ref>  In 1872, a [[smallpox]] epidemic closed local schools.  The [[Spanish flu]] pandemic of 1918, which was global in scope, struck over a thousand Bangoreans and killed more than a hundred. This was the worst 'natural disaster' in the city's history since the cholera epidemic of 1849.