1987-01-08-Hanscom Area Traffic Study Committee-min

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T0: Those Concerned FROM: J.R. Caswell SUBJECT: Minutes of the NATS Meeting on 8 January 1987 The meeting was convened by co-chairpersons Carol Goldman and Jane Farmer at the conference room in the Town Center Building in Bedford, Massachusetts, at 7:30 p.m. Each attendee introduced and identified himself. Attendance list is attached. Minutes of 6/12/86 and 10/9!86 were reviewed. Bob Nash stated that the meetings referred to in the next to the-last paragraph of the 6/1.2/86 minutes have been moved from winter of '86 to the spring of '87. In the 10/9 minutes in the next to last paragraph it should read, "requested a seventh alternative, eighth scenario". With the above comments and corrections the minutes were accepted. Bffi Pagitsas reviewed the draft report on the Hanscom Area Traffic Study, Phase 2. This report had been distributed by mail in December 1986 prior to the meeting. Larry Smith commented that the study results only cover traffic. They do not address safety. Oan Reagan answered that these were addressed in the phase 1 report. One result is that Routes 4 and 225 will only be helped by traffic engineering improvements, and not by major actions on major roads. The phase 1 study results are reinforced. Dan Reagan commented that there is no great, grand solution but a lot of little things need to be done. Larry Smith indicated that hopefully, the Route 2A Parrett Road work will move beyond the 25~ stage soon. - Concord wanted to know where the Route 126 and Route 2 intersection work was. It is supposed to be 100 complete design at this point. Question was raised, can HATS as a group facilitate these smaller so]utions such as traffic engineering improvements or should they be pursued by each town. The concensus was HATS should be at least an umbrella sponsor. It was reiterated that the model has no sensitivity to hazardous intersections. The draft report as presented covered only p.m. traffic. The a.m. portion will be written by the end of January. Mrs. Detori requested an executive summary in which conclusions are drawn. She asked if this cou]d be a stand-alone docu- ment. CTPS answered in the affirmative. She also requested that technical