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APPROVED MEETING MINUTES Committee Name: Lexington Bicycle Advisory Committee Date, Time and Location of Meeting: June 10, 2010, 7 pm, Room 111, Town Office Building Members Present: Peggy Enders (chair), Stew Kennedy, John Frey, Marita Hartshorn, Jerry Van Hook, Mike Tabaczynski, George Gagliardi, Richard Canale (Planning Board Liaison) Others Present: Bob Hausslein, Margaret Stebbins, Bob Dangel, Bob Hausslein, Terry Gleason Members Absent: Peter Kelley (Selectmen’s Liaison), Laurel Carpenter, Sandra Shaw (Recreation Committee Liaison), Abe Shenker Minutes : The May, 2010 minutes were accepted as corrected. Prior to the meeting we attended the ribbon cutting of the new pocket park on the Bikeway, which was landscaped by Nick Briggs as his Eagle Scout project Hartwell Avenue Traffic Mitigation : Richard Canale reported on the discussions by the Planning Board on the proposal by the consultants at Tetra Tech Rizzo. He said the current plan has features that include new bike lanes between Route 128 and a roundabout that replaces the jug handle on Bedford Street; a signalized pedestrian crossing at Eldred; new bike lanes on Hartwell Avenue; another roundabout at Maguire Road, four islands on Wood Street, etc. He said that the Massachusetts DOT insisted on the bike lanes on Bedford Street. Richard expressed concerns that the report does not treat all modes of transportation equally on the roadway. He urged the committee to participate in future hearings and meetings and would like to receive letters from as many groups as possible. After we discussed the pros and cons of the existing recommendations by the consultant, as well as about bicycle-friendly roadways in other countries and other parts of the U.S., we agreed to write three letters expressing our concerns and recommendations. One will be from Peggy Enders, Chair of LBAC; one from Stew Kennedy, representing the West Lexington Greenway and urging the plans to fully incorporate the Greenway; and one from Jerry Van Hook, Terry Gleason, and Jeff Roth, which will focus on the Wood Street component.