``I thought I would be a great-grandmother before the project was completed,’’ she said to members of the project’s technical committee during their afternoon meeting. ``I feel much better about it today. There’s a pinhole of light at the end of the tunnel.’’

But Peg Tourella, an outspoken resident of Linden Avenue reminded the mayor there are still plenty of traffic problems on her street. Linden avenue was recently resurfaced and many of the patches, bumps and potholes are gone, but motorists are now speeding on the street.

``It’s getting worse. It’s terrible. Everyone understands, but they don’t live here.’’ Tourella said.

Waller commented that it was important the project result in Linden Avenue being a village street and not a thoroughfare for traffic accessing route 28.

Peter Loyola, of CLA Site, the firm selected to do the site assessment and design work for the project, presented a draft of the traffic study done last month by Creighton Manning Engineering.

According to the draft of the report, the weekday morning and afternoon peak traffic times are consistent with the start and finish of the school day. Trucks and buses account for only eight to eleven percent of the traffic at that time of day. The remainder, officials said, is largely parents dropping off and picking up students.

With that in mind, trustee Jeff Katz commented that an internal bus route between the elementary and middle/high schools may not solve traffic problems on Linden Avenue.

The draft report states that traffic volumes on Linden Avenue and Walnut Street are highest during the school year because of proximity to the schools. Route 28 traffic volume is higher in the p.m. peak hour during the summer which is a reflection of the impact of tourism.

Loyola also presented summaries of his meetings with landowners including the Clark Foundation, the Leatherstocking Railway and the Cooperstown Central School.

The Clark Foundation property located south of the NYSEG substation may be used for baseball fields if the Cooperstown Youth Baseball diamonds are moved.

``They’re very positive and open to transferring it to the village and having it used as ballfields,’’ he said.

The railroad meeting was also ``positive,’’ according to Loyola.

The railroad, he sad, would like to increase its visibility and there was some discussion about combining a visitor center and train depot.

School officials had a number of concerns about an internal bus route that connected the two schools. They questioned if there was sufficient space to accomplish it and also worried about bus exhaust, snow removal, loss of parking space and lighting.

Loyola said there may be ways to mitigate some of those concerns, but first a survey of the school property must be completed.

Loyola said that now with the traffic report and solid information to work with, it was up to his firm to come up with some detailed concepts.

He expects to hold another public information meeting to get one more round of input from the public.

The committee will meet again July 20 at 9 a.m.