WHEREAS, National Work Zone Awareness Week is an annual spring campaign held at the start of construction season to encourage safe driving through road and highway work zones; and

WHEREAS, the week encourages motorists to slow to posted speed limits, eliminate distractions while driving and be watchful for roadway workers, their equipment and vehicles on the side of the road in work zones; and

WHEREAS, there are approximately 500-600 work zone crashes each year in Maine, and the majority of people killed in these accidents are motorists and their passengers; and

WHEREAS, the 2025 theme of “Respect the Zone So We All Get Home” reminds us of the hazards associated with work zones and to take extra care in order to protect both drivers and roadway workers; and

WHEREAS, the Maine Department of Transportation and Maine Turnpike Authority focus on safe roads and work zones and strive to keep employees and the public safe during road and street repairs in work zones; and

WHEREAS, “Go Orange Day” on April 23, 2025 provides an opportunity to unite in wearing orange to show support for the men and women who risk their own safety in working to keep our roads safe;

NOW, THEREFORE, be it resolved that I, Janet T. Mills, Governor of the State of Maine, do hereby proclaim the week of April 21-25, 2025 as

Work Zone Awareness Week

throughout the State of Maine, and I urge all citizens to recognize that keeping everyone safe in work zones and on our roadways is our collective responsibility.

In testimony whereof, I have caused the Great Seal of the State to be hereunto affixed GIVEN under my hand at Augusta this seventeenth day of April Two Thousand Twenty-Five