 Well, welcome everyone. My name is Kelly Lanema. I'm the assistant director of the Department of Planning and Community Development, and we're really happy to see so many people here tonight. Thank you so much for joining us to talk about the Mystic River path connection to the minimum bikeway feasibility study. The town of Arlington as we see funding through the mass trails grant program in 2021 to conduct this study. Our aim with this project is the development of a safe accessible separated trail between the Mystic River path and the Minuteman bikeway along the Mystic Valley Parkway and summer street. This is, we see this as an opportunity to increase connections for residents for visitors to the park to access to natural resource areas and a way to improve our connections to our neighborhoods and businesses and through multimodal paths. We're really excited to be working collaboratively with a number of municipalities and organizations to accomplish this work. I would like to thank our consultant tool design group. We also want to extend special thanks to the Mystic River watershed association, the city of Medford, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation, the Massachusetts Department of Conservation and Recreation and MEPC. And a special generous thanks to the mass trails program and the Lawrence and Lillian Solomon Foundation for generously funding this study. Next slide. I'm sure right now everybody is pretty familiar with zoom but just a few meeting guidelines. Everyone's muted by default and if you find yourself muted. It's nothing personal we just have a lot of people here tonight and so we want people to be able to focus on the presenter. You'll have an opportunity to raise your hand and unmute during the Q&A session. And you'll be unmuted during the breakout sessions for discussion. If you're comfortable, feel free to turn on your camera it helps kind of create a better connection between everybody in the group here. 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And so with that I think we can go ahead and get started and I'm going to hand this over to Stephanie where from tool design group. Thank you. Thank you Kelly. So yeah I'm Stephanie wire I'm a landscape architect with tool design group and the project manager for this. I'm also accompanied tonight by Lucy Gibson engineer who's working on the traffic analysis and developing intersection safety, and jolly Shapiro is also a landscape architect to my office. We're going to review a presentation tonight and then really dig into hearing from you in our breakout groups presentation I'm just going to briefly go over the project scope and timeline, our draft goals which is something we want to review with you and the breakout groups as well. Kind of go through the whole potential route and our existing conditions observations there, then just briefly talk next steps. We're going to have 1015 minutes for a question and answer and we will kind of want to keep those questions focused on the project anything related to design and comments you have about your experience and what you want to see. We're going to record all of that in our breakout groups, which I'll describe more later. So the general timeline we're trying to hit into June as our deadline. Now, you know we're in the middle of are kind of coming to an end on our existing conditions analysis, you're a really big piece of that. We want to hear from you tonight to really get understanding of your experience, really beef up our ability to respond to what you want. So we're going to kind of wrap that up in February, and then starting in February and through March move on to developing some alternatives or cross sections, you know the different options for the path and also various options for each intersection that is part of this project and some planning for our different place making opportunities, such as where overlooks could go. And we're going to come back to you probably late March with another public meeting. April and May, we're really going to be refining those concepts based off of what we heard from you also producing some maintenance recommendations. And then May, June we're going to be working to kind of package that all together and also blend, you know what are the next steps how do we get on to the next phase of design development for this path. Along the way, we do have a project team basically all of the groups that Kelly mentioned are part of the project team and so we're going to be consulting with them. We're going to be talking about this project, as well as doing a focus group different representatives and advocates different interests, probably in March. So we do have a lot of touch points. The last public meeting will likely be in June to kind of give you full picture and a wrap up the next steps. So basically, you know, we have a lot of different ways of communicating with you, some of you might have received postcards from us if you are living nearby or businesses nearby the path. But you know you might have heard through social media through newsletters that you receive and then stick River Watershed Association sent out a big newsletter blast. It has a project page for this and your registration tonight you're going to go on to an email list so you will be emailed about upcoming public meetings. So we were definitely going to be advertising the next meeting widely. Generally for this and the next meeting, we're going to be trying to use a little bit of an interactive format. It's called Miro where we're able to kind of show you visuals and just take notes so that you can see us taking notes on the screen. We also have for both this and the next meeting surveys. If you're going to duck out tonight definitely take the survey we'd love to really get everybody taking the survey, and that should be copied in the chat below. So if you're going to be getting your feedback through this it's pretty brief, and we're going to come back to it again at the end, you can get the link. So the draft goals, I know this is a lot of text, I am going to take the time to read through each one. And again we're going to want to get your feedback on these and just, you know, are we missing anything. So starting out providing an accessible route that contributes to regional biking network by connecting the Minuteman bikeway, Mystic River paths and ale wise Brook Greenway. Strengthen the walking and biking network between Arlington Medford and Somerville by developing connections to perpendicular streets sidewalks and planned bike routes. The regional local connections and increased safety and comfort for all users, particularly at intersections and Broderies, improve access to and views of the Mystic River and Mystic Lakes to enhance people's experience and draw them to these resources. And reduce emissions by increasing bicycle mode share and incorporate planning and design concepts that contribute to climate resiliency, finally preserve and enhance wetlands trees tree canopy is a spelling update and animal and plant habitat. So again we have you know those network connections with regional and local safety and comfort, improving access to these great wire bodies that we have, and then reducing emissions are really anything related to climate resiliency, and supporting environmental values. So, we've been, you know, spending the past month or so, kind of delving into existing conditions analysis and I'm not going to speak on any of what you're seeing here in detail but this is a list of various plans that we've reviewed we've also collected traffic for our various intersections, look through geospatial or map based data. The graphic on the right is from the Connect Arlington Sustainable Transportation Plan. You know so we've really been trying to base everything that we're doing in the plans that have come before and the recommendations that have come before. Tonight you know we really want to focus kind of on the ground and get your feedback about what you're experiencing on the ground. You know broadly, we have some big picture or kind of big connections to make those perpendicular streets that I mentioned before. So this summer, the whole, the whole route should say kind of extends from Minuteman Bikeway, we're trying to figure out where we're going, and then all along the Mystic Valley Parkway, just south of Lower Mystic Lake, along Mystic River, and over to El Whitebrook Greenway. And you know throughout here we have the existing Mystic River paths and so we're going to see how we're going to interface with those. The big picture connections we want to make perpendicularly are the Summer Street Mystic Street Mystic Valley Parkway intersection really making sure that anybody who's coming along Mystic Street can comfortably connect to the path and vice versa. There are some of these strong connections across the bridges to Arlington so through the Rotaries, and then across River Street Bridge as well. And I've got some orange boxes placed throughout just kind of little pointers of things to for you to consider and maybe provide us a feedback on, you know, we're going to be thinking about neighborhood connections as well so some connection to small streets will be basing part of that on on safety and what is a safe connection to make. I'm really curious to hear about your experience and how you're connecting to the existing paths that are out there now. So I'm going to spend the next somewhat slides kind of breaking down what what we've observed in five different character areas, and to start on the west here. So we're going to go from the middle street and Cutter Hill Road intersection with Summer Street, and then over Buzzle field. So we have the minimum bike way down here and again I said we, we want to make a connection we're trying to find out should that be through this intersection, which also has the benefit of, you know, prevent potentially kind of providing a more access to vehicles from the west, where do we come through Buzzle field, and along Summer Street, then we're going to be heading out to the east here. You know we have a wide 38 feet to work with. There is informal parking throughout and we understand that it gets quite busy on game days. We want to consider as we move. If we were to develop the path through Buzzle field is the on a game day you have kind of a squeezed condition. So how the path interact with that. See picture here of Summer Street. It's right now, pretty it's a busy road right now pretty wide so we have a lot of room to work with. So what side of the road should we be on what do we do about parking. Just an example of some of the informal parking that's happening parking is restricted in some areas, not in others. Generally we kind of see it happening throughout. And then at middle street, you know we have a lot of pavement to work with there are medians and all sides turn lanes wide receiving lanes and middle street has the potential for some narrowing and different geometric options through here. So then moving on to Summer Street, Mystic Street Mystic Valley Parkway intersection. Now this is a very long intersection as you can see it here. That's that's offset as well. So Mystic Valley Parkway and Summer Street aren't quite straight on each other. The crossings are long that the crossings in the north and east sides are 60 feet long so it takes you a little while to travel through. And here this one on Summer Street is really about 90 feet along with the slip lane. We want to consider what do we do about slip lane. Do we keep it or not. And how does that interact with the path and crossings. Another consideration here is the grade is going down about five to 7% slope. So that's both consideration for visibility from the intersection and any traffic coming through also anyone who would be coming up a path. You know we want to consider how we make that slope doable for them. And then finally, you know I mentioned beforehand, we want to make that connection to Mystic streets that anybody is going to the path or going to Mystic Street. All of this is very legible navigable easily. Easy to get through anywhere you're trying to go to some pictures here in an example of the length of this intersection. The gas station on the northwest side here has a driveway that people are heading directly into. If we have people coming through that we want to wait. You know, how does that intersect with the gas station something we need to consider. Also, you know, the Duncan's is a high use driveway so that's over here. You know, we need to figure out what side of the road we're going to be on and we're going to look at driveways like that to figure out what's really the logical side to take the path through. So lower Mystic Lake then this whole section here is a little bit different character, much more woodland we have this great, great opportunity with the lake. Opportunities for overlooks and a little bit just stronger connection to the water. The roadway varies a bit in width, it's narrower on the west side here and we also have a number of neighborhood streets coming in here. We're curious about potential connections through here. A little wider as you go along but regardless we have room to work with the roadway to create a path. Right now the path is fairly narrow, but we have so that's about seven feet but we have 10 to 12 feet here and then the roadway has enough width that we can think about expanding into the roadway. We want to consider, you know what would the level of separation be. One, one thing that I'm showing here is we do have a culvert right here on the left side of the lake. And that's just something for us, you know, to kind of think about in terms of capacity and what is the structure need, need and maintenance. Again, great views of the lake that we can develop and then we have potential for some crossings. This is a high speed area and with the curve of the road we have more limited sight lines. Those are things we want to consider and how we would develop any crossings and where the rotaries. We have Medford Street through to High Street Rotaries. We are considering both sides of they'll both have design alternatives applied to them because they work together as a system, and you can maybe see it might be a little light in the photo, but there's a dark pavement and a lighter pavement that really kind of shows where people are driving the part of the road they're actually occupying and that we have a lot of excess pavement to work with to be able to really tighten up these rotaries. Another thing that's happening right now is these circles aren't very big and people can mostly make a fairly straight shot through if they are heading through. And so they can move pretty quickly. They're creating more deflection, creating more of a circular shape that a vehicle needs to follow to help us slow people down. Again, we want to make path connections on both sides of the bridge and there is the Mystic River path extends on this side so we want to make sure that as we're coming up through here we're really making a connection to the actual path along the Medford side. We also have a lot of room to work with on the bridge so we have different options for how we could consider that connection. There is transit coming through here so anything we're designing we also understand from conversation with the project team that there are occasionally school buses here. So just, we acknowledge there are larger vehicles still need to make it through here. So that excess pavement, you know, just how very wide the bridges are, and then an added point is there's a lot of really beautiful trees along the whole project area, we want to make sure that we are respecting those trees with any connections we're making off the sides of the paths, and we have some topography to respect as well in the design. So then finally we're we're going to this whole East End is going to take in the full segment from south of the breweries over to the alewife Brooke Greenway. And it's here through here that the parkway is actually separating in grade from where the existing path is now what the form of the path will be. You know, we have different options, it could all be a path down by the river or we could consider some roadway side bike lanes or two way bike lanes on the roadway itself. Generally through here we still have woodland into as we get more to the eastern end more trees on lawn. So kind of this woodland to park experience. We do have the River Street bridge. That's what's splitting each photo here and the River Street intersection to think about so we'd love to get input on how you're experiencing this intersection as well. And one big thing for us is to consider, you know, how do we connect through or where do we connect over this bridge to we stay back, kind of in this mid block connection or do we bring people to the intersection or both. And then just really we, we want to think about some of the constraints as you can see is pretty narrow through here, and again being respectful of the vegetation and environment throughout here. So really this is the ale wife Brooke Greenway and the right of this photo and we just want to consider the alignment coming in to really set people up to transition there. So that's kind of the walkthrough of the different segments and our mirror boards have aerials that will be able to to use as you can so that you can speak to those. And really just want to kind of go back to connect Arlington and these plans that we were looking at and how these are guiding our priorities, we really, this is a graphic from the connect Arlington plan. It's really showing how the town is prioritizing pedestrians first and then bicycles transit. And that's really the vision for how this path is fitting into the whole network. And then you know really prioritizing getting people out of cars and making it a great experience to be a walker person who's biking. And this is this plan is also from connect Arlington town has identified the intersections that are in this project as high priority safety improvement as priorities for safe and safety improvements excuse me. And so mystic summer mystic Valley Parkway intersection, the rotary River Street bridge. So one big reason this this project came about is to be able to address those intersections. It's a great opportunity to make a number of safety improvements throughout. Just some, some brief data analysis here you know we did collect traffic data but I'm not going to go through that but just. A preliminary crash review of mass dot data between 2017 2020 and none of these intersections is from the regional perspective, a very high crash intersection they don't qualify on the highway safety improvement program list which is top five, 5% crash intersections. However, you know we can see it's the rotaries where we've had the highest number of crashes fortunately no fatalities there are also no recorded collisions with cyclists or pedestrians in any of these intersections. Say recorded because of course there's often conflict that that occurs that we don't get in our records. So just a little picture there of what's going on. And then so that you know we collected traffic data, just to really get a sense of the current use patterns and what is to be able to model the capacity of the intersection, and to be able to make recommendations for for geometric changes, you know, lay out changes to the intersection and operational changes so what can we possibly do with signals to support the path coming through. You know, things that we are going to be able to achieve with these layout and operation changes slowing speeds of vehicles, making path users visible to drivers. Going back to the pedestrians and cyclists as a bigger priority for the town. We also want to make sure that our designs are really expressing them as a priority, you know, in our intersections and through the rotaries. And then finally it should be easy for path users to know how to get through an intersection and that's I think particularly going to be relevant at Mystic summer Valley Parkway. So really make the path legible throughout. So that is really the existing conditions tour. So the next steps are that we're going to be developing a memo and summarizing what we hear from you tonight, February, then we're going to be taking our time in February and March to develop some alternatives. And then we're going to come back to you again in, in March with those alternatives to get your feedback and another survey. For now, again, here is our, our survey please take it send it to your friends. I'm going to open up a let's check our time here question and answer period we've got 15 minutes. Really want to keep the questions focused on, you know, is there something in my presentation you need more information on do you have questions about the project process itself. If you've got thoughts about your experience and design ideas, save them for the breakout rooms we'd love to record them all there. So I will I see a hand raised, Dan, we will go to you. Just a quick question. Is there any connectivity to the tribe community like that. You thought of a plan in a greater sense. Sure, but it's not a, not a direct connection off your, but I do think that's relevant or what are the larger connections and the directions that people are coming in from. Yeah, I'll jump in quickly this is Amber with the Mississippi River Watershed Association because we have that on our radar to look at potentially replicating some of the ideas and feedback that we have on this section up Mystic Valley Parkway on the site that does connect to the tribe community. So it's the same group of stakeholders it's just kind of moving our way through this area to make it better for walking and biking. I think it will inform that and hopefully create another project. That's our hope that I go that way sometimes. If you haven't seen it, Mr. River Watershed Association has a great map on their site of the different greenway connections that they're hoping to make over time so lots of different fun projects coming forward. How about Dana. Yeah, so I'm a regular bike commuter. So during the design process. Is there any thought given to how the, the paths are going to be maintained in the winter, in terms of, you know, maintaining the ability to use them, you know, like who's going to plow them and, you know, how are you going to manage, you know, them getting covered in snow and, and stuff like that. I kind of glossed over it and talking about the timeline and scope, but we are going to be developing maintenance recommendations from a planning level but to develop them we're going to be talking to the landowners and the people who would be involved in maintenance to see what's feasible and what's really necessary to make it a year round path. So definitely something that we're thinking about. Hi, I lead bike rides for Arlington Community Ed and also bike in the area. And looking at your map it looks like the project scope ends at El Wife Greenway. But would you consider, because there's the new green line station at Tufts going down around the rotary toward Boston Avenue. Because then there's a bike lane on Boston Avenue that goes to what will be the new green line train station. So to end the path at El Wife, Wife Brook Greenway is just short of continuing it around the curve to to get to where Boston Avenue crosses route 16. It's just a thought. I think it's a good thought. I think the connections and setting up that connection for the future definitely something that we should think about. Amber saw you unmute did you have more. This is another example of this is a tout of Arlington owned project so kind of started with that center of gravity but of course these all connect to surrounding communities and there's a regional nature so certainly all of these groups are thinking about what leads to the next connection and so on so absolutely but we always have to kind of draw the line somewhere for these. And Tony, I'm going to figure out how to undim my display here in a second. We're also going to call in Rod Rick when we get a chance after Tony. Oh, I am not seeing. Use his hand. Things that we've been chatting. Okay, after Tony. Yeah, wasn't staring at the chat. Go ahead, Tony. Yeah, my question is kind of similar if there's any sort of discussion or talks or thoughts about connecting this to this path to get away into sort of downtown Medford through the clippership connector and other parts of that are hopefully planned and and don't currently exist. The response is the same and that we're definitely going to be setting up connections across in the Medford. And you're thinking about those wider connections, but generally the scope of the project stays near the river in terms of the actual alternatives will be developing. And then to Rod Rick. Hi, thank you. The, I don't know just a couple of quick points. I what I see, I ride this area a lot. And what I see is that cyclists tend to use the roads through here. Pedestrians use the path along the river. And there's very little deviation from, from that. Second thing. River Street is a very good way to cross the river very simple there. There, you know, is is a bit of a wait at the light, but that's manageable. And that the most of the sort of interesting riding is on the Medford side, right up along the east side of the mystic river and then the east side of the mystic lakes. So it's, it's really kind, it's kind of an integrated Arlington Medford experience. It's possible to ride around the top of the upper mystic like, you know, across the average on a ride. Right along the top of the upper mystic and then down Cambridge Street and Mystic Street in Arlington and then down again. I ride that route a lot. I ride the Minuteman bike way a lot. I seldom ride both in the same Period. So this, this is potentially interesting. We hope so. One, one, one, one other thing. What I've observed is that pedestrians, again, almost entirely on the little path along the river do tend to cross River Street up by the bridge rather than down at the intersection and this is very informal and everybody is careful not to get killed. Thank you. All right, so let's go to you. You are unmuted. Oh, we can, we can just see you and hear you. I think he's actually on his bicycle at this moment. Okay, let's go to Dennis. We can hear you. Hi, I have two comments about am be It's point B. There's a gas station you said you will think about which side you you will pass the cars go in and out of that gas station I had a lot of conflicts. I was thinking maybe a diagonal crossing to the other corner might be a better idea to avoid assuming gas station is going to stay there. And about a you were saying we are considering which option. Why not both. So I keep the longer one through Mill Street for bike heavy traffic and the other one for pedestrians. Maybe so it's shorter but maybe not ideal for bikes but pedestrians. This could be an option. Thank you. And Kevin. Two observations. One is a given how well River Street in Arlington crosses into Harvard Street in Medford. It really is, I think the preferred way particularly for inexperienced cyclists to cross between the two and avoid the rotaries entirely. But what I do think the opportunity is that at both the river River Street Harvard and at the Medford Street High Street is is the movement along the river, which is hard today, that if you are coming from from either the the Mystic River path or the Alewife Brook Greenway. There is not a good way of getting across Harvard Street. And the other thing about Harvard Street there is they're really on the bridge anyway it really is over why it's almost like you could put a whole second sidewalk. And then you have to go to the sidewalks that are there on Harvard Street, both to narrow the width of the crossing of Harvard Street, and to make it easier to move to do the river crossing on Harvard Street, and then similarly, this going along the road at the double rotaries. I think someone else mentioned it that a lot of people choose to walk to the, to the high point of the bridge on the river, before they cross north to south there. It puts them, it limits the number of flows of vehicles that they have to think about there's just one coming from the left and right. So there's a strong pedestrian desire line across the bridge there at the double rotaries in the middle of the crossing. And then kind of the challenges well if, if, if you're on, if you're on your bike, what's the right way to, to just go along the river through there. And I do do that every morning, or three times a week but I always make sure to just turn right from the bridge onto the parkway. And I also avoid the conflicts at be by turning right there and just staying away from everything else. But I think that the, yeah, those to me the two opportunities are along the river. How do you move upstream downstream, rather than between the two towns. Thank you. So we're going to take Emily and Gerard, and then we're going to hop into breakout groups. I want to raise one question that someone had in a chat that's a very much a context setting question to so maybe those the ones you called out and then we'll end with that. Yeah, sounds good. Thank you, I have a quick question about signage and whether that's part of the design process and where it comes in. One thing that is a really common. And kind of common acts to grind about a lot of the connections that we already have in this overall region is that in a lot of places, the connections especially for bike paths and off off road routes really are there. You can't necessarily see the next part of it from the end of the previous. And there aren't signs that show you where to go so we have a lot of facilities that are actually really useful and can get an experienced writers to a lot of useful places, but people can't really see where they are or how to get from one to the other there is even some things in the chat today, saying, you know, explaining how you can make some of these connections. And these are the things that already exist. And it always seems like the wayfinding signage that just tells you, this is the name of the path that you're on. This is the name of the thing you're connecting to. And there's a chain of signs where you can see from the one sign you can see to the next sign and you can see to the next sign, and you can see where to go. You know it does. It does a couple things. One is if you're just kind of tooling around, and you're driving around you can see that there is something to go somewhere. It tells you that it goes somewhere useful. You don't have to be following your phone like this, or trying to pull up a DCR PDF on your phone or something like that, to get where you're going and and I think it just, it also raises awareness of the connections that we have. But that step seems to get lost so much of the time because we have so many of these places where there's a path here and a path here. It's really easy to get from one to the next, but you have to just already know that. You don't already know that or if you didn't, you know, previously start by making that GPS map or something like that. You just think you came to the end of the path and that's that. And so, and it seems like such a crazy step to miss because signage is absolutely the cheapest possible component of any of this. So that's incorporated into the design process as you go so that we know that, you know, once, once these connections are made people will find them. Thank you. Yeah, thank you and I'll just briefly say that, you know, while it won't be the scope of this project of course design the signs are really designate everything that's on the signs, making recommendations for potential sign opportunities. And that signs need to be incorporated and how we really develop the legibility and navigability of the path is definitely something that'll make its way in there. So Gerard. Thank you so much this is phenomenal and I want to thank my Medford friends as well there's definitely a low hanging fruit connecting the whole foods to the beginning of the Mystic Valley Parkway, but I guess my only question or point would be, can we have both worlds of Mystic Valley Parkway for example, I think Roger kind of alluded to it earlier. Can we have a path right along the river which I think would be ideal for when you're riding your bike slowly, maybe some decking or something to stop from time to time for overlooks. But at the same time, could we not also have the Mystic Valley Parkway with some better lines or maybe take a little bit of that space, because when I'm on my road racing bike I go down Mystic Valley Parkway, and I buzz right along there I feel safe I wish I had a little more room. I don't go casual I'll take my hybrid bike along the river so I would just hope that we could make this, maybe the best of both worlds from letter D to E all the way to ally bro, but other than that this is phenomenal and looking forward to more info. Yeah, great great point and definitely as we're looking toward alternatives will be considering whether there's a mixture involved. I remember, are you looking at the DCR question from Phil. I answered that in the chat, they've been at the table and at meetings with us, which is good because you wanted to get them involved from the very early stages and this is a mass trails grant which is administered through DCR so there's a connection there. The clarifying question came from Thomas which is very similar to what Dr was just speaking about so I think it sets us up well. Is the intention of this project to install a new paved off street path for use by cyclists and pedestrians. So the answer is not totally straightforward we want to create safe grade separated roots but I think we are taking into account this kind of like different uses by bicycles, and you can speak more intelligently to this Stephanie but that's really what this phase is is exploring all the options and how the different modes and comfort levels fit together and we can support all of them. Yeah. So just seeing the time. I do see there are more hands raised but we're going to jump into breakout groups. We will probably have a little time afterward for a few more questions or any really salient questions that came up in your breakout groups. So I just want to briefly go to say we're going to have 30 minutes for breakout. So we definitely welcome a lot more comments like we've been hearing we really appreciate the feedback. We're going to spend a few minutes going over goals and getting any input you might have on those. And then, just like you've been talking about you know what are your concerns what is your experience, you know, whether that's through intersections or along the whole of the paths, what are the opportunities, you see, you know, that includes neighborhood connections, potential amenities you know somebody already mentioned wayfinding. So we want to make sure we're really covering both the concerns and the opportunities. So you're, you're going to be put into a group with a facilitator who's going to take notes for you in Miro. That person is mostly ascribed they may not have the ability to answer all your questions but we will be recording your questions. Again, if there's questions that seem like they should be answered for the full group will address those after the breakout room. If you don't get your question answered and it's something based on design we're going to come back in the next meeting and we're going to be trying to speak to some of the questions you have then in that second meeting slash we might also be able if there are a number of questions or commonly asked question to send out a follow up email. So, with that, I think Kelly is going to break out groups going. Actually Doug is going to put us out in breakout groups I think we have groups of about 14 to 15 people. So, when you see a, see a invitation pop up on your screen please hit accept. We're all back well I know I had a really great informative session. I hope you did as well. Would any facilitator if you had a question that rose to the four of your group that needs to be answered could you enter that in the chat please. Like a context setting question or like a question, a bigger picture question. We can we have we have a few minutes left here. Close the meeting down at nine. And again I'll just I'll just give you the next steps are we're going to be taking your feedback and turning these into evaluate to alternative evaluations and coming back in late March with another public meeting. So, yeah, we have about 10 minutes for questions or anything that came out of these groups, ambers typing in saying our group was wondering what improvements could be made in the short term, especially for the crossings of the high street rotaries. And so I'll just say to that one. So there are various things we can look at we talked a little bit about in my group the different kinds of temporary or tactical materials that could be used just flex posts or things that could go and kind of quickly paint. So there are different solutions that we can provide more on in the next meeting. And the goals and designs best reflect or accommodate cyclists of differing ages and abilities. So we, we also got this comment. And this is something that we're going to be working on a bit with the focus group and trying to get input for different needs that need to be considered, you know, ways that we can make. So this is planning level I think, you know, recommendations that would be taken forward into the design for signage accessibility, you know things on the ground that make things a little bit more clear. So consider with the path that we had any bike parking mixed in, you know the sizing of those spaces to allow different sizes of bicycles and trikes through a lot of things that we'll need to give thought to and come back on to. So definitely thinking about both pedestrians and people on bikes and all different kinds of users amongst those groups. And I should also say that you know by law, we're going to be developing an ADA accessible path but generally we try to exceed that and make sure that we're really making more of a universal design. Oh now there's a lot in the chat. Okay, I'm going to move faster. So comment on Buzzlefield and please not bisecting it. Do the high volume of use for multiple sports and past recreation. Challenges for pedestrians, especially at the rotaries. It's the possibility of quick build mid bridge crossing. I think we're going to have to give some some thought to those quick build solutions and come back to you. And for High Street painted crosswalk on the bridge right above the middle of the river. And let's see. Okay so a lot of good design design feedback here. Yes. Yes to lots of ideas for tactical short term solutions. I will say we got the comment as well in our group about separating, you know, people who are biking and people who are walking. So we're going to be thinking about that going forward. Any offered path would need to be wide enough for two way use. This is a group with thoughts. I love it. And please take the survey as well. Julie would you mind copying back in the link for the survey to. We also got comments about that hill. Climbing, you know, toward mystic summer intersection. We were definitely going to be thinking about how to make that look, how to make that easier. Yes to more crossings. Good point on the public restrooms you know as we can think about recommendations for amenities. You know, we're going to be kind of doing a place making plan where we're kind of figuring out what might fit where we will be looking at the different amenities that can make it into the design. And we'll bring that back in the next meeting for your feedback. Lots of thoughts and crossings. I just commented on the experience of the wooded natural feel of the path. I think this is a priority for us as well. Really keeping with the environment and not destroying that experience and really trying to bring people to the lakes and do that through this kind of natural experience all along the path. That's a big point in our group that was actually just cut off as we rejoined the big room, but about looking for more connections to existing natural areas along the path so taking advantage of use of the lake along the proposed facility but also can make me some better connections with parks that are already already there and building out that network. We're going to be talking about amenities, water for people and pets, drinking fountains. All right. We are getting close to time here, really love everything that has been thrown in here. Julie, could I also ask you to go ahead and do a big sweep of this chat. I got all of your notes. I know I got a lot of really great specific thoughts in in my meeting. And so we're going to be taking all of that and coming back to you will summarize in the next meeting some of what we heard, both in this meeting and from the survey, which is again, Julie just dropped it in the chat there. So we look forward to talking to you again, probably late March. Thank you very much for your time tonight. Thank you. Thanks for this presentation. It was great. Thank you for your work. Thank you. Take care. Thanks a bunch. Hey, thanks for the Medford people for turning out. Absolutely. Come to our meetings once in a while. That'd be fun. Stephanie, I have a copy of the chat as well. So great. All right, take care, everyone. I'm going to close this down. And thank you facilitators for all of your help. Yes, thank you, everyone. Bye.