ML20151B188

Forwards Newpaper Article Re Highway Routing in Emergency & Expresses Concern Re Adequacy of Highway Network

ML20151B188
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Site:	Pilgrim
Issue date:	06/17/1988
From:	Donahue C AFFILIATION NOT ASSIGNED
To:	NRC OFFICE OF INSPECTION & ENFORCEMENT (IE REGION I)
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Dr.. Ronald Bellemy Chief of Emergency Preparedness  !

Nuclear Regulatory Commission.  !

631 Park Avenue 1 1

King of Prussia, PA 19406

Dear Dr. Bellemy:

I have enclosed an article from the June 15, 1988, issue of' The Boston Globe. I thought this article would be of parti-cular interest to you and other members of the Nuclear Regula-tion Commission as the article is-about the route which is the main route in the proposed evacuation plan for theLcitizens of Duxbury, Kingston, Marshfield, and parts of Plymouth. The pro-posed reception center is 40 miles from Duxbury. Can'you imag-ine contimated people and cars driving along that route for that distance with that. traffic? Also, our state police are

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not planning to close the-route to traffic from the towns not-included in the EPZ.

There is noLway out for the-thousands of. people'in the area.

I have lived in Duxbury for 13 years and the-population has-DOUBLED in that period of time. We.are'not talking about-the, same situation today that existed when Pilgrim I was first'put on line.

I sincerely hope that the NRC will first consider the safety' of the people and nct be concerned about the almighty' dollar that Boston Edison will make.

I await a response to my concerns.

Sincerely,

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. Mrs. Claire Donahue a

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Route 128 choking on prosperity By Renee Graham ES BS bad Globc Staff rie monotone, he spins an frony-faced dic_ ington to her Job at Shopper's World in EUd bI8ID

. tum on the "high price of progress and Framingham. te, tina SS 11 geIS,, WALTHAM - Sometimes when she is prosperity ** and introduces Elias and the "Ims Angeles. New York. D.C. - forget ,D l snarled in morning traffic on Route 128. the other trapped travelers on the roadway to about them." Elias said etly as a minor SayS One incessant SOlullOHS grumble of whine of her aging the surrounding carsFord and the the 'Avilight Zone - where Route 128 is fender-bender on the route brought the traf-act Sarrah known as "America's Trofle Region.~ ja Cornmuler Elias' mind wandering: fic crawl to a standstill. "Trafficwise, this is IO uvuge That haunting, familiar music is inter. as had as it gets."

A grainy black-and-white Rod Serling rupted by the bleat of a car horn, snatching dlOCk slidesfrom behind one of those tricolor For those who travel Route 128 - more

{ highway signs touting Route 128 as Elias Imm her vintage television nightmare. than 150.000 vehicles between 7 to 10 a.m.

j "America's Technology Region."In his ce. Back in the daytime drag. she continues the and 3 to 6 p.m. - commuting has become a Inch-by-inch creep from her home in Buri- TRAFFIC. Page 18

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by flourtshing businesses along and it to during peak hours - 4 3A . point.. M boiandis Houte 128. has produced the what's it gcIng to te Ilke IO years ,

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nictroWest Mire. 3 12" "N!Mt'I from now?"* said Mary MacInrws. . . _.

State officials fear the suute's executive .12 rector of the Wa' tham . C 22 15 chronic congentson will begin to 128 Transportation Council. an

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0.0007*19,300 3 the high-tech boom in suburtun SOUTHBOUND I'( }~o 9 20.000 (

towns and cities. officials said.

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20.300 21.600 s J 'HPFWr.50D*T19'f00 t 16.700 18.900 1

! opened. Once tagged as the "road / sa. u.a TJTfl9.800"17.7007T.

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/ ya TL"T*16.30G*M3.4007 communities around Boston, Ts.sa), g { 128  : M I M.200 I4.000 .

Route 128 - also called laterstate f I ,

C N 7d9.80tP"33.5005 a 3 J 2 .500 2 95 from Peabody to Canton, and (g

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%'*8 Transportation Secretary Fred- 1 l crack P. Salvucci casts the route 95 138) 25

• • the Main Street of the high-tech aonomy and the center of New 24 l k I England prosperity." lie said ( /

! those with a financial stake w t. kine .an map a chanAswa Kar=1 j' the route have long recognized tre potential detriroent to businesses i i

' If 128 traffac continues to escalate. Inst week. We're anticipating the long-range - more aIfordable i "Thet's the major thrust of our problem and we have to take steps housing in the communitics a g 1 efforts on 128 hemme we ge* the to avoso that outcome.~ the h fth** Y - '* "'* '"'"'d

rHe nOSTON ntDnE WEDNESnAY. JUNE 15.1968 19 Some firms try to dodge gridlock Continued from preceding page office park. "We're planning addi-largest employers in Waltham -

such as ride-sharing services and tional facilities to make it a bust. funded a study on traffic condi-office parts that offer a variety of ness community so you don't have tions and future development, services, so employees would not to drive to get errands done." . From that effort came the Wal-have to travel to accompliah sim- ..Our motto is ' Bad traffic ts tham 128 Transportauon Council, ple chores. - bad for business.' We know bust- the state's first suburban trans-

"Employers have begyn to rcal* nesses along the route may suffet portation management organiza-

, tze that there have to be more de- and that's the danger," he said. ,IIOD*

strable wayo of figuring out the "This is a real problem that ef- The first step, officials said, is problem, said Deputy Trans fects thetr ability to do business. it getting a handle on commuter

.tation Secretary Cheryl Soon, in- [or- affects the ability to attract god . habits. The council is conductin people and retain good people flee par t a survey of 11,000 employees te p Ugi da Frank Strause, director of ad. along the highway. On't the re-care centers. shopping areas, res, rr.inistration for GTE Laboratories suits are, compiled later this taurants and exerclae places. Em- In Waltham, said 60 to 70 percent month, the council hopes to intti-ployers are thinking through the of his company's 1,200 employees ate a data base through which lifestyles of their employees on the use Route 128 during daily travel, neighboring commuters can be -

subject of driving to work," "

"Simply stated," he said, "the , offic la saj ca The Prospect Mill Executive O(. consensus of our employees who fice Park in Waltham la one of the have to travel 128 Is that it's con-They have also initiated the first such fa:llities a!ong the route stant aggravation, time-consum-to offer a variety of services. In Waltham Express, a fleet of 15 it,g, nerve wracking, you name passenger vans to transport mo-

"We have a cht)d care center torists between the Alewife MBTA and a general store where people' Concern stirs a study station and the Prospect Htlloffice can do their shopping without get- Last year, officials from Pros, park. It is a six month 'experi-ting into their cars," said Arthur Pect Hill office park, GTE Labora, ment, and if it is successful, van H. Nelson, a general partner in the tories and Polarold '- the three service will be expanded from more train stations to other office parks.

"For every person on public transportation," Nelson said,

."that's one less car on the route.

That's the direction we have to move in now."

Though the solutions seem at-talnable, no one says the traffic proble n can be conquered over-night. But those looking at Route 128 agree that keeping the econo-my healthy is the strangest impe-tus to curtall traffic.

"I think people are cautiously optimistle that something positive will happen." MacInnes said.

"People who are in the traffic ev-ery day of the week are probably the best people to come up with so-lutions." she said. "And if we can't solve the problem, at least we'll know it won't be from a lack of trying."

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