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Tri-Town Bike Committee
Meeting Minutes
Meeting Title: Electric powered mobility devices on the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway
Date: Wednesday, October 22, 2025
Time: 7:30 PM — 9:00 PM
Location: Remotely via Zoom
Lexington Bicycle Advisory Committee Members:
Betty Gau
Dave Armstrong
Jonathan Bernays
Jason Dearling
Tom Shiple
Jason Dearling
Suzan Chen
Other Attendees:
TJ Kelly Arlington Police Dept
John Kelly Arlington PD
Christopher Tonkin — Arlington BAC
Brian Johnson
Peggy Enders
Matthew De Remer —Arlington BAC
Daniel Nuzzo -Mueller — Medford BAC
Giuseppe Barbesino
Tom Fortman
Yifang Gong
Anton Rapetov — Arlington BAC
Susan Barrett
Peter Weichman — Bedford BAC
Jay Luker
Suzanne Lau
Galen Mook - MassBike
Alexis Hosea—Abbott - MassBike
Meeting was opened by Betty Gau, Lexington BAC chair.
Introduction of Galen Mook and Alexis Hosea—Abbott from MassBike:
MassBike is the statewide, not-for-profit advocacy and educational organization
With a mission to promote better bicycling through improved infrastructure,
access, and safety, for all people throughout Massachusetts.
1. Meeting Introduction
The purpose of this meeting is to facilitate a discussion on how to keep
everyone safe and how the three towns can cooperatively regulate
electronic mobility devices on the Minuteman Commuter Bikeway.
We are going to focus on the Bikeway at this meeting.
2. MassBike Presentation on State Laws
Review of Toolkit presented by MassBike
Brief presentation from Galen Mook on the Massachusetts Micromobility
Commission
The Commission is in the process of defining further the language for Class 3 ebikes, e -
scooters, and other forms of micromobility.
The Commission is charged with making recommendations on ebike, scooters, emotos,
etc. The Commission should* have a full report by the end of 2025.
3. Open discussion
Points covered included:
• Signage to promote proper bikeway etiquette
• Speed limits and signage
• Encouraging e vehicles for transportation
• Importance of state guidelines to help towns regulate
• Focus on the user behavior versus prohibitive regulation
• Review of class identification; class 1, 2 and 3
• Police enforcement of speed on the bikeway
• Education is key to promote good behavior and build safe culture on the bikeway
4. Meeting goal to develop ideas/suggestions/action items
The following ideas and action items were identified during the meeting:
1. Add more speed limit signs along the bikeway
2. Add speed limit signs on the barrels at each intersection
3. Paint speed limits on pavement at each intersection/entry point
4. Education: Develop a guideline sheet for parents — post from Police and Town
in social media
5. Education: Develop guideline sheets to distribute in schools
6. Research getting a speed monitoring device on the Bikeway — with smiley/frowny
face monitoring speed — costs about $5k — there are grants available and we
may be able to be rented for pilot project
7. Education: at Point of Purchase with guidelines flyer/brochure
8. Find out how to get approval of speed limit on the Bikeway for each town
9. Explore methods to develop vehicle registration for vehicles that go more than 20
mph
10. Coordinate an in-person public forum / education seminar with MassBike, Police
Departments, Friends of Lexington Bikeways and Safe Routes to School