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fed Msft W2 Ashland, Dover, Holliston, Hopkinton, Framingham, Lincoln, Natick, Sherborn, Sudbury, Wayland Bulletin Board 2 Community Briefs 3 People Places 15 Calendar 16 Sports 18 Boston Sunday Globe June 1 6, 2 00 2 It near xnat wn ie Diowin I 1 Liulj.ljLliA.iii 1 Li OUTBOUND TO WOHCESTER I I ft xn 1 1 I 4,4 If i I 1 tescj! 6 l- irv- 7s? Iv After many delays, three rail stations to open Saturday By Jonathan Saltzman Cl GLOBE STAFF l. It drives Eric Austvold nuts. He's stuck in westbound traffic on the Mass. Pike in West Newton during evening rush hour when suddenly the silver-4nd-purple MBTA commuter train whizzes by his Nissan Maxima, the rabbit to his tortoise. As Austvold knows, the westbound train will rumble within a couple hundred yards of his yellow two-story Colonial in Southborough about half an hour later.

But he cant ride it, much as he would like to, because it makes no stops between Framingham and Grafton. "All it has to do is stop," the 37-year-old Boston technology research analyst muses, especially when the 25-mile drive home takes him two hours. Soon it will. After a decade on the drawing boards and numerous bureaucratic delays and glitches, MBTA stations in Southborough and Westborough are poised to open Saturday. A third station on the line is scheduled to open in Ash-landAug.

19. For weary motorists and local business leaders and politicians, the $14.2 million rail expansion is a long-awaited step in the quest to ease traffic strangling the fast-growing western suburbs. They also hope the new stations spark business and other transportation improvements. Still, many of those hungering for an alternative to driving along the Interstate 495 corridor say the MTBA is serv- tag only half a loaf. They contend the authority has scheduled too few trains and built too few parking spaces to persuade motorists to climb aboard.

They also say the authority is shortchanging "reverse" commuters, who live in Boston and work at big 1495 employers such as EMC, Intel, Fidelity Investments, and Cisco Systems. The MBTA has scheduled only one morning rush-hour train to deliver westbound passengers to the new stops as opposed to five picking up eastbound passengers. I -According to its critics, the MBTA is stuck in a quaint, Cheever-esque world where suburban wives drop off briefcase-toting husbands at the depot and trains carry them to jobs in the big city. In fact, detractors say, many of the jobs I h. Jk GLOBE STAFF PHOTODAVID KAMERMAN Eric Austvold is looking forward to spending more time with his wife, Christine, and children, Grace and Mitchell, once he starts riding the train to Boston from the new Southborough MBTA station.

Daily passengers W. Newton 445 Wullesley Farms Current stops New stops Ashland 2006 estimate Southborough 2006estimdte wo 513 973 have moved to the suburbs. "I agree with the MBTA that the vast majority of the ridership is going to be coming from the west to the east," said Kathleen Barry Bartolinl, Fra-mingham's director of planning and economic development and a longtime advocate of improved mass transit in the western suburbs. "But the number of people needing to come from the east to the west is going to increase. Look at the number of jobs being created along the 495 corridor.

The west is the future." Joe Pesaturo, an MBTA spokesman, countered that a study last year showed that fewer than 1.5 percent of employees in the region commute from Boston, far too few to justify the "exorbitant cost" of adding westbound trains. "At this point, there are no immediate plans for more trains going in the opposite direction," he said. "We have to be careful where we put our resources. The goal Is to put them where they serve the most people." It has been 42 years since passenger trains stopped in Westborough, Southborough, and Ashland. Talk of resuming rail service gained momentum in the 1990s as a result of the building boom west of Boston.

Communities in the 1-495 belt experienced double-digit population growth in the past decade, including Hopkinton (45 percent), Southborough (32 percent), Westbor-COMMUTER RAIL, Pay 8 WellesleySq. Newtonville 915 600 Wellesley Hills 600 West Natick 1160 i Westborough 5 Worcester I 2006 estimate 51050 fir aft nn 250 605 Framingham 1780 Auburndale 485 GLOBE STAFF MAP IIMI MH 1 1 1 1 IM 1 1 1 1 1 1 MM 1 1 1 Ml MMIMMIMinnHMIIIlin 1 1 IMM 1 1 IIIM IHMMUI IMI I IMUIHIMIMinn I IIIIIMHnilMIIMMIMIIMM MHtMtlM MM MUI nMMM IHIMIIIMMI IM MMI Inside Today WAYLAND Not your children's music FRAMINGHAM For voters, a question of trust Override outcome indicates a division among residents someday form their own girl band, had never heard this song before. "Shake it up baby, now twist and shout," the band sang. "I think their music is really hip and funky," Hanna said. "This one is new for me, but if totally cool." Meet the Daddios, Wayiand's original suburban-dad rock band.

They are Dave D'Orlando, Peter Lavenson, and Matt Shear on guitars, Wayne Gagne-bin on the bass, Mike Priscella on guitars and percussion, and Dan White on drums. With receding hairlines, salt-and-pepper hair, and soft bellies, the 40-somethings were a far cry from the pop fare the younger audience at the Loker School usually listens to. They are all fathers with day jobs: hot-tub salesman, insurance agent, optometrist, computer-systems engineer. And all are musicians in practice and at heart While the children in the crowd were hearing some of the songs for the DADDIOS, Paga 6 Still, the kids love Daddios retro act ByEunLeeKoh 1 GLOBE STAFF CORRESPONDENT Hanna Zayas and Taylor Gould jumped, giggling and dancing, front row center, as the local band played at Loker elementary school's annual end-of-the-year family picnic The two energetic third-graders, who aspire to A I I T4 fit ft 2 It' 'C''irCMl ByJennAbelson and Scott W. Helman GLOBE STAFF CORRESPONDENTS The ballot question was one wordy sentence, an eight-line block of text asking voters whether Framingham should increase property taxes by $7.17 million.

Distilled, the question for many voters could have been just five words: "Do you trust your government?" The outcome of Tuesday's override vote hinged ostensibly on whether residents were willing to pay, on average, $235 more each year to preserve what they have come to expect from their town and schools. But conversations with voters at the polls suggest it also turned on whether they have faith in the Memorial Building. "There's always a cynicism about government But the need for an override is not a waste or fat issue," said Town Manager George P. King who saw in the slim margin of victory proof that people have confidence in Fra-mingham's government Interviews with residents on both sides, however, showed a dichotomy of trust among Framingham voters, one that presents a challenge as the town moves forward from the crucial but divisive vote. The majority of voters sided with town and school officials, handing the override a 6,875 to 6,517 victory.

But many at the polls also ex- String theory A Newton couple have the market cornered when it comes to violins. Ken Meyer repairs and rebuilds old instruments for musicians around the country, while his wife, Di Cao, creates new ones in their sunny workshop. Page 15 Sticking it out Framingham lacrosse star Colin Hulme was the first junior from his school to be selected for the high school Ail-American team. He's got a summer schedule full of lacrosse, and he figures that next year's team has got to be even better. Page 18 GLOBE STAFF PHOTODOMINIC CHAVEZ Wayne Gagnebin rocks out during a performance by the Daddios at the Loker School in Wayland.

The suburban fathers' combo has become a familiar act around town..