My wife attended this meeting, held last night at Town Hall. I believe she left slightly before the meeting finally broke up.
The contractors talked for about the first half-hour, and then people were invited to get up and look over some maps. And chat. There did not seem to be much newsworthy to report, but I am providing a copy of an audio recording of the first 35 minutes at this Google Drive link (download “2019-09-04 …”). The discussion of traffic begins about 22 minutes into the recording.
I have said everything I care to say about this study in a series of recent posts, ending with Post #364.
The only thing of particular interest to me is that one my my neighbors quietly let the contractor know that there is some long-standing interest in this neighborhood for closing Wade Hampton at Maple. This would be one way of dealing with the cut-through traffic that will be generated by 444 Maple West, 380 Maple West, and all the rest of whatever-the-Town-approves for my end of Vienna. Apparently the contractors had never heard of that and were taken somewhat aback by it. So while this was a study about changes in land use and so on, there was no attempt to address the details of the actual near-term land use changes that have already been approved for my neighborhood. Certainly not changes that are being suggested by the residents, as a way to keep the burden of MAC-generated traffic off their streets.
FWIW.
