STRONG — Residents will be offered a chance Thursday to hear state construction plans for improvements at a dangerous intersection.

From 6 to 8 p.m. Nov. 14, the Maine Department of Transportation will hold a public meeting at the Forster Memorial Building.

Residents have been concerned about poor visibility at the Sandy River bridge, where Route 4 and Route 145 intersect. Route 4 bears left on a sharp curve, continuing to the towns of Avon, Phillips and Rangeley. Route 145 continues through downtown Strong.

Drivers at a stop sign on Route 145 must accelerate across Route 4 to head south to Farmington, with little ability to avoid speeding traffic coming south around the blind curve.

“Probably I shouldn’t say it, but our Highway Department has been playing Russian roulette out there,” Selectman Mike Pond said. “They can’t see at all.”

Although there have been no fatalities, residents have expressed concern that drivers on Route 4 north of the intersection heading south don’t slow down at the curve and will hit a car trying to pull into the southbound lane from Route 145.

“I don’t want to wait until somebody in the town has to die,” Pond said. “That’s just crazy.”

Pond said logging trucks and town snowplows pulling onto Route 4 from Route 145 may collide with other vehicles on Route 4.

Residents had hoped to have the sharp curve modified but the MDOT did not receive funding from the Legislature to start the project.

Also Tuesday, selectmen signed a General Assistance amendment that reflects cuts to the 2009 American Reinvestment and Recovery Act’s temporary boost to Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits. The benefits were reduced Nov. 1. The average cut for families of three will be $29 a month, or $319 for November 2013 through September 2014, according to the Maine Children’s Alliance.

In other news, selectmen agreed to meet Dec. 11 and 18.