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<br /> <br /> <br /> <br />MEETING MINUTES <br /> <br /> <br /> <br />Committee Name: Lexington Bicycle Advisory Committee <br /> <br />Date, Time and Location of Meeting: <br />December 29, 2008, 7 pm; Room 111, <br />Town Office Building <br /> <br />Members Present: <br />Peggy Enders (Chair), Hank Manz (Selectmen’s Liaison), <br />Stew Kennedy, Mike Tabaczynski, John Frey, Richard Canale (Planning Board <br />Liaison), Laurel Carpenter, Sandra Shaw (Recreation Board Liaison) <br /> <br />Others Present: <br /> Bill Hadley, Paolo Marinelli, Bob Dangel, David Lees, Stacey <br />(LNU) <br /> <br />Members Absent: <br />Marita Hartshorn, George Gagliardi, Abe Shenker, Jerry <br />Van Hook <br /> <br />This is a brief record of the special meeting called at the end of December to <br />provide LBAC members a chance to review the status of the Minuteman Bikeway <br />snow plowing pilot. A series of snowstorms that began on Friday, December 19, <br />and continued throughout the weekend dumped about 18 inches of snow in <br />Lexington. The Bikeway was plowed on Friday, December 26. DPW Head Bill <br />Hadley was present for the discussion and provided some background on the <br />snow plowing during these storms. He emphasized that the town is committed <br />to ensuring that all the sidewalks are plowed before the Bikeway can be done. <br />The Bikeway was plowed with a sidewalk tractor with a blower; one person <br />plowed the entire length and it took ten hours. He reminded everyone that this <br />was the first experience with Bikeway plowing, that sidewalk plowing was first <br />priority for the town, and that the DPW is committed to making this experiment <br />work. <br /> <br />There was some discussion about ways to improve what was done after the first <br />snowstorm, including: decoupling Bikeway plowing from sidewalk plowing by <br />hiring an additional contractor to tend to it before the trail gets compacted and <br />icy; taking up some of the bollards to allow larger plows to get on the Bikeway at <br />selected spots where there are long open stretches (e.g., Camilla Way, the <br />entrance across from the bus stable providing access between Bedford and <br />Hartwell, etc.); opening the gates before a storm to allow a slightly larger blade <br />plow to do the job. <br /> <br /> <br />