Dear Bob and members of the Chappy Path Committee, 
First let me say I am in favor of a fair and well timed study of the pedestrian, bike and auto use of the Chappaquiddick roads and would gladly contribute if I could be assured this is the way the study will be done. However, from what I can glean from your emails, this is not the case and I would love to be proven wrong. 
My concerns are these: 
* Have both your Committee and the Sharing Chappy Roads committee sat down together, possibly with a mediator, as requested by the Selectmen? If not, why not? 
* I have heard nothing from your committee about including in the study safety-improving suggestions for our existing roads. It appears that the order to the study group is only to study the possibility/feasibility for a two-way, road-side bike path. What will the study group actually be asked to do? Will representatives from the Sharing Chappy Roads committee be involved in the setting up of the study? Will we, the Chappaquiddickers, be privy to the written request? 
* How can you rely on a February visit to evaluate the safety or traffic issues? I acknowledge that the road layout will not change, but there can be no accurate judging of the traffic in February. Any results based on heresay or non-professionally gathered numbers just will not fly in a Town Meeting. 
* Your 'poll' of the Chappaquiddick community needs to be pure and not contaminated by slanted questions and/or misrepresentations. Will you be coordinating its construction with the Sharing Chappy Roads committee and those on Chappaquiddick that have poll constructing experience? We all know how statistics can be slanted if based on responses to a poorly written poll. You need to have your results totally accurate and believable. 
The opinion of many Chappaquiddickers "on the street" of your committee's tactics and tone is not good right now and that will certainly hurt your efforts and color peoples' decisions when it comes to a vote. I'd like to see us be able to go to the Town Meeting with a unified voice. You will not have that unless something changes soon. 
Respectfully, 
Ann Hoar Floyd