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Meeting Minutes 9/7/82
Attendance Sally Castleman, Sara Arnold, Bill Mix, Don Graham, Elaine Dratch,
Lance Neumann
1 Report on Gray Line service was generally positive New schedules have
been distributed and most reactions have been favorable
2 The MBTA is planning to start service on Hartwell Avenue on Monday, September 13
Service will be provided by an extension of existing Route 530, once in the
morning and once in the afternoon Stop locations have been selected and signs
will be put up eventually Don Graham agreed to distribute announcements of the
new service to Hartwell Avenue business
3 Tom Hartmann of the Bikeway Committee revisited the status of the bikeway
proposal and the committee agreed to reiterate its support of the project on
the basis of the transportation service it would provide to Town residents
4 School buses from selected schools will stop at Hayden Recreation Center on
a trial basis to relieve overcrowding on some afternoon Lexpress runs This
supplemental service will only be available to children who take the bus to
school
5 Lexpress status Pass sales aee brisk and ridership seems to be increasing
slightly from the early August level The map is at the printers and all
available advertising space was sold There is some concern about continued
fare skimming on the part of some drivers,and the committee will focus
additional attention on this problem.
6 Sally Castleman will attend a meeting of all committee chairmen with the
Selectmen to discuss overall Town goals and priorities for the coming year
7 The committee supported the attempt to get a home rule petition passed by the
State Legislature to allow the Town to execute a three-year Lexpress contract
8 A general discussion of the lease/purchase study resulted in no firm conclusions
The most critical missing piece of information is the relative cost of the Town
providing vehicles (through lease or purchase) and contracting for operations/
maintenance versus requiring the selected operator to provide a new (or relatively
new and reliable) fleet as a contract requirement Advice on this issue will be
solicited from a number of operators and the committee will have to reach some
basic conclusions in time to submit a proposed budget in early November