HomeMy WebLinkAbout1996-11-12-TAC-min.pdf MEETING Minutes: November 12, 1996 Meeting Transportation Services Office
1625 Massachusetts Avenue
Lexington,MA 02173
Meeting Description Transportation Advisory Committee
Results Desired Decisions by Committee on Agenda Items
Date November 12. 1996 Time 7'45 o.m.
Location Town Hall. 1625 Mass.Ave. Lexington, MA
Scheduled Time Actual Time
Start Stop Total Hours Start Stop Total Hours I
7.45 9:15 1.5 8:00 p.m. 10:00 p.m. 2
Persons Attending
1 Sara Arnold 6 Ben Turk
2 Elaine Dratch 7 Eva Heney
3 Liz Andrews 8
4 Ed Ganshirt 9 I
5 Betty Eddison 10 1
Items To Be Discussed ✓ 1I
1 Approval of October 16 minutes ✓ 1
2 New Buses I
IJ Meeting with Bluebird Brief update provided by B. Lucas ,
Request for additional funding-BLucas Request for funding for additional bus �
3 Request from Jane Berman for Lexpress service on Lillian Road referred by Dan Buse
22 Households on Lillian Rd. Elaine Dratch will call.
4 Old Business 1
a. Request for service on Middle Street � ✓ I
45 Households Household/age information-attached I
Will try to add Middle Street to current service on a trial basis to see if time on the route allows the addition. 11
Will report back to committee.
b Depot Square S.Arnold will write memo to B. Eddison re trafficcounts and reversing traffic flow in Depot Sq. �
B. Eddison will act to have a traffic consultant conduct a study. �
Letter from Ivor Morgan Attachment Some points in the letter were unclear. S.Arnold will contact I. Morgan. I
5 Update on Lexington chair car service ✓
Meeting with COA for parameters of the service.
TAC members expressed concern about the proposed price to charge riders for the chair car service.
Suggestion to Blucas to write rfp so the vendor picks up fares and takes them into account for the price of
of the service. Consensus of committee was that$3.00 per one-way trip is too much to charge for the service. � I
E. Dratch will call Minuteman Home care to talk about what other towns are charging and learn of funding I
alternatives.
6 Other Business II
B. Lucas reminded TAC that TAC contribution to the Town Report is due be the end of December.