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`Transportation Advisory Committee (TAC) Minutes March 9, 2015 Members Present : Sara Arnold, Peter Levy, Francine Stieglitz, Sally Castleman, Bill Levison, Hank Manz, Elaine Dratch Members Absent : Matt Zhang, Staff Present : Jeanette Rebecchi, Transportation Services Manager; David Kucharsky, Planning Department Liaisons Present : Rich McDonough, COA; Richard Canale, Planning Board; Michelle Ciccolo, Board of Selectmen; Nancy Adler, COA Guest : Shirley Bayle (Brookhaven resident) 1.Public Comment Shirley Bayle, Brookhaven resident, spoke about her use of Lexpress services. Ms. Bayle requested that Lexpress consider providing service on the Route 3 bus directly to the front door at Brookhaven (instead of pick-up on Waltham Street). Ms. Rebecchi commented that Ms. Bayle is not the first Brookhaven resident to make this request. A pilot program was initiated in 2007, but was discontinued due to low ridership. Since the Route 3 / 4 bus takes a full hour to complete both routes, adding this service will require elimination of some other part of the route. See Brookhaven Lexpress service below for continuation of notes 2.Brookhaven Lexpress Service Ms. Rebecchi proposed a solution for sharing pick-up off Waltham at Lexington Ridge st and Brookhaven. Beginning next fiscal year (July 1), a pilot program would be initiated to pick up at the front door of Brookhaven on trips beginning at the Depot between 9:30 am and 1:30 pm and at Lexington Ridge for all other times. This issue is to be re- examined and resolved at the April meeting after consideration of the March 2015 Lexpress ridership data. The pilot program, if adopted, will be publicized along with other route changes before July. 3.Approval of Previous Meeting Minutes Minutes from the February 2015 meeting were unanimously approved. 4.TAC Position on Mitigation and Strategies David Kucharsky, Lexington Planning Department, briefed the committee about the planned expansion at Cubist (now on hold) and the South Lexington Traffic Study and technical memoranda from FST consultants (http://www.lexingtonma.gov/southlexingtontranspstudy.cfm). These memoranda cover traffic studies at major intersections and assessed capacity for further build-outs in the Hayden Avenue area. Mitigations, primarily focused on safety, are suggested in the memoranda. The mitigations being discussed with Cubist before the effort was put on hold were primarily for supporting intersection upgrades suggested in the FST memoranda. Boston Properties (owners of 191 Spring Street) have an on-going obligation to coordinate traffic mitigation efforts among Hayden/Spring Street businesses through the South Lexington Task Force. However, this effort stopped about 8 years ago. Њ