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LEXINGTON BICYCLE ADVISORY COMMITTEE MINUTES <br /> December 8, 2005 <br /> <br /> <br />JVH: Tom Fortmann was the one that suggested the luggage cart originally. <br /> <br />MH: MSP: Return both racks under the platform canopy. <br /> <br />MH: Agreed to draft letter to LHS stating our position that Bike racks should go back where they were before. Will forward the draft <br />to SK. <br /> <br />HB: Action: speak to Tom Fortmann. <br /> <br />MH: We should have a bulletin board for display of bicycle information. <br /> <br />HB: Pictures needed -- use last year’s. <br /> <br />Miscellaneous Issues <br />SK: Handed out a draft list of projects in various conservation lands that could be covered by the Community Preservation Act. This <br />was made by the Conservation Stewards Directors. <br /> <br />AS: Propose multiple rides around the various town areas. He will propose a route for a ride in the spring. <br /> <br />MT: Boardwalk construction costs about $15/foot. <br /> <br />JVH: The Sidewalk Committee has a website: Lucy Fletcher Jones put it up. Has map of town, how schools are organizing with safe <br />routes to get to schools. <br /> <br />SK: All our meetings in 2006 will be in this room: 111. <br /> <br />SK: No recent word on MWRA sewer work plan on Bikeway between Revere St. and Brigham Lane. Terry Flynn is MWRA project <br />engineer. Last we heard they had hoped to start this fall. They have promised to keep us “in the loop” on the project. <br /> <br />MH: MH and SK met with Carl Valente and Linda Crew Vine to discuss right of conveyance and get advice on next step. As a result, <br />wrote a letter to Mrs. Byrne, signed by SK and MT, informing her of plans for a 4-foot-wide wooden boardwalk on Blossomcrest <br />connecting to trail over (Meadow Brook Ave.) paper street on her land. Money will come from the Commonwealth Department of <br />Conservation and Recreation grant. Jere Frick offered to help if necessary with this contact with Mrs. Byrne. <br /> <br />SK: Passed around a newsletter addressed to us from the Metropolitan Area Planning Committee’s Transportation Planning <br />Organization. See www.bostonmpo.org for details. There is to be an open house Tuesday Jan 17 at the Transportation Building in <br />Boston to unveil the preliminary update for the Regional Transportation Plan. <br /> <br />MH: Who’s interested in XX skiing the Bruce Freeman Trail sometime this winter? Offered to organize an outing there. <br /> <br />RS: From Boston Globe Nov 10: Bedford funds $500K of community preservation funds to extend the path from Railroad Ave to <br />Concord Road. <br /> <br />JVH: attended meeting: 2 mile path from existing parking lot off Railroad Ave. to near Rte 62 crossing. Probably will decide on <br />blacktop rather than stone dust. The Bedford DPW has replaced the stone dust on the narrowgage trail four times already. <br /> <br />MH: Hiked in Arlington’s Great Meadows over Thanksgiving and was pleased to see many users of new trails / boardwalks. <br /> <br />MT: Vandalism of the boardwalk has ceased for now. <br /> <br />SF: We welcomed Steve Flemming, 9 years in Lexington, from London. Lives on Orchard Lane, off Sanderson Rd, off Lowell St. <br />Regular Bikeway user, and is most interested in mountain biking. <br /> <br />MH: MSP: Adjourn 8:37 <br /> <br />