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Envision Needham committee debates scenarios; members split over modeling and bike-lane language
Summary
Committee members reported ongoing discord in the Envision Needham planning process: a recent vote charged consultants to model traffic-diversion scenarios that some members called speculative; members also said "bike lanes" language is largely absent from current scenarios.
Members of a town planning group known as Envision Needham told the Finance Committee on Oct. 8 that deliberations are contentious and that progress has been slow.
Committee members said consultants were asked to model traffic-diversion scenarios, including one where certain routes could add as much as 25 minutes of delay during peak periods.…
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