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of TMs s,s <br /> z. <br /> Aannin Board <br /> c� <br /> 16 Great Neck Road NOYth <br /> .wlashpee, Aassachusetts 02649 <br /> Mr. Adams referenced the pedestrian comment made earlier, if there was a pedestrian <br /> walking across that crosswalk at the exact time two vehicles were looking to turn, that second <br /> vehicle would be in Rt. 28 a bit for the duration that pedestrian takes to cross. Generally, you <br /> will slow down to make a right hand turn. <br /> Ms. Faulkner brought up the Hingham report about people circling the parking lot trying to <br /> look for parking. She asked if they could conceive a scenario where people are circling <br /> because they don't have a space and cars coming out of the parking lot now bunched up. <br /> Cars are entering and pedestrians are walking. She thinks they will eventually run out of spots <br /> at this location. <br /> Mr. Adams commented they don't design the perfect storm scenario. If you are waiting to turn <br /> in or out, each car completes its movement and there is no interaction. Like Steeple St. and <br /> the other entrance into Mashpee Commons, and all the major corridors all the way down <br /> Route 151 and Route 28, all have those driveways where drivers have to slow down to turn <br /> into a driveway. What he is saying is the location of this specific developmentwill not create <br /> anything worse than what already exists. To the point about the Hingham location <br /> comparison, they did count on the Saturday before the known blizzard. <br /> Ms. Faulkner has one last scenario to unpack within Saturday peak summer. On Charles St. <br /> turning left towards Falmouth or straight through Shellback Way, has a LOS E all the way. <br /> When the project is built it becomes a failure, LOS F with a queue of 156 ft. In the build its 81 <br /> seconds, and volume to capacity is 87%. With the build mitigation it does drop down to LOS E <br /> at 74 seconds but is listed as no storage. <br /> Mr. Adams clarified in that build with mitigation; the cars are extending back from Charles St. <br /> away from Route 28. It will get worse in the future without Trader Joes. There will be growth <br /> generated in the Town, and traffic volumes will increase 7 years from now. To MassDOT, the <br /> most important vehicles are traveling down Route 28. They can shift some timing around to <br /> get from an LOS F back to an E, that difference is 7-8 seconds to clear the green light. If all <br /> growth was stripped away the routes would operate better. These are give and takes for the <br /> Town to decide, it would add vehicles, but it also adds other things. This is an attraction <br /> designed to make the Town better, which is true of every commercial and residential <br /> development up and down the town. <br /> Mr. Lucas wanted to go back to the vehicles backing up and entering the site from Route 28, <br /> and observations they saw from Hingham. T&B asked how the observers who did that count <br /> performed the count. It was acknowledged from where they were standing, they saw some <br /> folks circling the parking lot, but they were standing at the driveway entrance off Route 53, the <br /> Shipyard driveway that turns into the parking lot, they were not counting cars entering from <br /> Route 53. Yes, they experienced conflict with vehicles that were parking. Entering from Route <br /> 15 <br />