Select Board Member Allison Threatens Resident, Says The Traffic Actually Projected For Capital Site Would Cause an "Infinite Backup"

 

Select Board Member Jason Allison took to the keyboard this afternoon, and may wake up tomorrow wishing he had gone for a walk instead.

Allison logged onto the "Lancaster MA, Mass, Massachusetts" resident-hosted board this afternoon and was inspired to take some residents to task over citing that the Capital Group's proposed development would add 7000 trips per day to Lunenburg Road.  

Allison then turned to math, but probably should have turned off the computer.   "7000/day would be ~300/hr which would be ~4/min which would be 1 approx every 12 seconds."    

"The 7000 number would create an infinite backup where trucks would never enter or exit.   Thus business would not be able to operate."

Unfortunately for Allison, the "7000 number" is actually less than the actual weekday projection from the Vanesse & Associates traffic study coordinated by the Economic Development Committee last fall.

From page 10 of the study

It's actually 7,314/day. 

Things then got ugly as the Select Board member started flinging threats at the resident.   When the resident protested that she was correct, and had quoted statistics promulgated by the town he seemed to lose his composure.   "I would recommend you consult an attorney," Allison wrote.

Not appropriate, and hopefully he'll reconnect with the resident to apologize.

After that...maybe someone with a "Say No To The Rezone" sign should get in touch with Mr. Allison. He may have had a revelation today.