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APPROVED MEETING MINUTES Committee Name: Lexington Bicycle Advisory Committee Date, Time and Location of Meeting: September 8, 2011, 7 pm, Rm 111 Town Office Building Members Present: Peggy Enders (Chair), Stew Kennedy, John Frey, Marita Hartshorn, Jerry Van Hook, Bob Hausslein (FoLB Chair), Richard Canale (Planning Board Liaison), Sandra Shaw (Recreation Committee Liaison), George Gagliardi. Others Present: Maryann McCall-Taylor, Michelle Stweng, John Livsey, John Mazerall, Margaret Stebbins, Richard Spencer Members Absent: Mike Tabaczynski, Peter Kelley (Selectmen’s Liaison), Laurel Carpenter Minutes : The June 2011 minutes were accepted. Center Street ScapePlan : Maryann McCall-Taylor presented the current plan for the redesign of the town center streetscape. She said the scope of the proposal covers the streets and sidewalks in the center but does not include parking. Proposed changes include: providing bicycle landing “boxes” across the Mass Ave/Waltham Street intersection and painting share the road arrows (sharrows) along Mass Ave. The committee indicated a preference for sharrows on Waltham Street, as well. The proposal includes several “bike nodes” along the Bikeway behind the center, including at the Visitors’ Center. The committee recommended that the bike node on the east side of the Depot be widened with more green space. With respect to bike lanes on Mass Ave, which some members favor, Richard Canale said that, with the present 2-lane plan, it would be difficult to provide cyclists with a bike lane and still keep them three feet of parked cars. He said that the sharrows will be located based on MUTCD regulations (i.e., 8 feet from the curb). The lane widths will be 12 feet each, at the request of the police and fire departments. Marita will give Maryann the locations of the approved bike racks to be included in the drawings. Maryann has started work on a pamphlet to educate drivers, cyclists, and pedestrians of the changes to the center and rules of the road. She hopes to have it go out with the spring tax bill. The committee suggested that, during the first few years of the introduction of sharrows, lettering be painted along with the sharrows that say something to the extent that “bikes may take full lane.”