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Sally:we have to look at all possible solutions and that is low hanging fruit Varda -most students would not pay 300 for a parking pass Sharon:their parents will,if it helps them not to drive them everywhere Bridger:Somebody will pay for it but you are not getting that change that people are switching to buses so you keep increasing the price,eventually you are not doing either thing.Not funding the buses by getting people on the buses and not getting the cars off the streets.Lets go back to Howard question -is the current state not effective so are we just going to maintain the current state. Deepika:Bridger just asked a crucial question.Howard give us a second. Bridger:I am not of the opinion that Lexpress should continue in its current form Deepika -take a deep breath and think through that point.I agree with Bridger that in the current state its not sustainable.Its not doing the work that its supposed to do which is transport people and its expensive. I am not ready to say that some future form of Lexpress should also not exist. Howard:Some form of lexpress type transportation system is needed.What that looks like we are going to have some recommendations about.How much it's going to cost and where the funding is going to come is a different matter.If money was not an object who would we serve and how would we serve them.And once we get an idea of what it looks like then we can see what it's going to cost.We should have a wholistic approach of lexpress lexington going forward.What is that going to be like.Who we are going to serve it,how we are going to serve,and who are not going to make happy.Forexample Students. Take your bike,walk.Lexington is not that big a town.Go with some friends,carpool.Make a habit about doing what is environmentally friendly way to get from place to place.Get into a habit.Once its a habit its easy to do. Carolyn Kosnoff: Am not convinced that Lexpress in its current form is really doing what it needs to do .Its not serving everyone equally.Reflected on some of the takeaways from the forum.We can all envision a system which would have all the functionality that we want.Financially hard to get to that ideal system. Reluctant to say that we dont need any transportation.Even with all the information we have been given dont feel equipped or have the expertise to say elemniate Lexpress and this is what we should do instead. Struggling with that because the Select Board is looking for a recommendation from us.Dont know that even after another 6 months if we will feel comfortable making that recommendation. :The Select Board does need that recommendation because we are in no position to make thoseJoe Pato decisions alone.If you dont feel you have teh expertise to come to that bottomline then partial recoomednations or what you feel is missing or what talent set is missing to be able to develop a full recommendation would be hgelpful to the Select Board. Sally:Committee was created based on who we represent,not transportation experts.Agreed with what Joe said.We can put together the ideas and missing pieces.Nothing of us think its a great system.It has been whittled down to a not a great system.