PATRIOTS LOOK TO SOLVE TRAFFIC WORRIES OVER NEW STADIUM

          One day after South Boston politicians expressed that
     residential traffic was their main fear of a proposed new
     Patriots stadium, backers of the project commissioned a
     study to show that game-day traffic can be confined to
     highways and mass-transit, according to David Halbfinger in
     the BOSTON GLOBE.  Patriots Owner Robert Kraft and Massport
     officials want to show that with roughly $2B in
     infrastructure improvements already underway near the
     stadium site, the project would not be "the nightmare
     residents dread."  With more than 70% of Patriots' season
     ticketholders living near public transportation and Foxboro
     not accessible to mass transit, stadium backers said
     extending the transitway could put as many as 8,000 fans on
     mass transit.  To deal with the nearly 4,000 fans who would
     drive, Kraft has hired traffic engineering firm Frederic R.
     Harris to develop possible solutions (BOSTON GLOBE, 12/12).