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interchange on the town if it did not want it, iurther stating that if the town did not want the interchange , to have elected officials, presumably the Selectmen, write a letter to the Commissioner notifying him of this fact. Mr. Snow stated that he believed the most im- portant problem in regard to the Route 2 proposals had to do with the Watertown Street intersection. He said that he did not see how the State Department of Public Works could justify its proposal on the basis of the proposed angle of the intersection itself, the location of the Peacock Farm Road intersection adjacent to the proposed ramp intersection, the inadequate width of the right-of-way, site distance, and the alignment - both horizontally and vertically - of Watertown and Pleasant Streets, the existing heavy and projected traffic counts on said streets, the increase in traffic prob- lems which would result at the Pleasant Street-Follen Road -Massachusetts Avenue intersection, and - last, but not least - the encouraging of traffic to use Lexing- ton as a short cut to Route 128 instead of directing the through traffic around the town. MEETING The Board met with the Selectmen at 9:15 P•m- WITH to discuss the matters noted above, Mr. Snow giving a ' SELECTMEN brief review of the Board's preliminary major street plan, the State Department of Public Works plan for widening and relocating Route 2 in Lexington, and the conference he had with representatives of said depart- ment. In view of the prospective filing of the Route 2 plans it was decided that Mr. Snow and Mr. Gayer should confer in regard to the Planning Board's pro- posal for connecting the Route 2-Watertowfa Street - interchange with Massachusetts Avenue by means of a new road and as soon as possible to prepare prelimi- nary plans and cost estimates for such a road with a view of recommending to the Selectmen and Planning Board a course of action. The meeting adjourned at 9:4.5 p.m. Thomas S. Grindle Chairman 1