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The f~ee passes and the project's proximity to multiple bus lines and to BART will have th~ greatest in,pact on pe~k trips. There are three Wheels routes that serve the site, Roums 10 and ? that both stop on Hopyard at Gibraltar and Route 4A and 4B that stop on Chabot m the rear of the site. Among these routes there is service every 15 minutes to the site f~nn BART in the morning and service every 15 minutes from the site to BART in the evening. The site is nearly the fu'st stop after leaving BART in the morning end the last stop before BART in the evening, with only 5-7 minutes of travel time to and from the site and BART. This service will be free to the tenants of the project as it is for all Hacienda employees. At 3.$ employees per thousand square feet, the proposed building could have about 155 employees. Based on our experience, we would expect 9 to 10 of these employees to fide the bus to BART during each peak period. This amounts to appwximatcly 6% of all employees, which is within induslry standards for projects with high trax~it accessibility. Although we are not able to quantify their impact, the other TSM measures will also h~lp mitigate peak traffic. It is common in some cities to see trip credits granted for bike mck~, showers, and iml~dual carpoot\vanpool parking stalls as part of a credit- b~ed trip ~ring system. Although Plea&alRon does not use such a system, the fact that these measures are regularly granted credits demonstrates the value they have in an overall TSM program. The proposed office project is incorporating a covered nine bike Im~king rack, two shower facilities and nine carpool/vanpool parking stalls. Due m the TSM measures incorporated into the project, we are quite confident that the sile will ~'tunlly generate 9 to 10 fewer l~ak trips than the traffic study projected. The proposed project should therefore have more than the 21 fewer peak trips than the r~taurant and certainly no more "outbound" p.m. peak trips than the existing restaurant. V~truly yours, Chris D. Kinzel, P.E. President /Oi 3-4~9/TSMI~2r I .doc