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City-Based Arterial Cut-Through Traffic: Traffic with either an origin or destination in the city but which uses local arterial routes rather than freeway (regional) mutes. This traffic is difficult to characterize and to quantify in model runs, although the traffic model does route local traffic in this manner. Examples include a shopping trip from Fairlands to Stoneridge Mall which uses West Las Positas Blvd.-Stoneridge Dr. instead of the parallel 1-580 route, and the commuter trip which exits 1-580 at Foothill Rd. and uses local arterials to reach a destination easterly of Santa Rita rather than using 1-580 to Santa Rita Rd. These trips add to total local street mile use, add traffic to more intersections, and, by contributing to local intersection congestion, may increase neighborhood cut-through traffic. Neighborhood Cut-Through Traffic: Traffic with no origin or destination in a "neighborhood" which uses local collector streets in lieu of congested arterials, or traffic with a neighborhood trip end which uses local collector streets when arterial street routes are available and which would be used if they operated efficiently. The second part is a much more debatable definition: Is a trip beginning at Montevino-Vineyard which uses Touriga-Concord to reach Vintage Hills School "reasonably" to be expected to use Vineyard-Bemal-Kottinger-Concord instead, since it minimizes total street miles on local neighborhood collectors? Is a shopper beginning at Sandalwood-Muirwood to be expected to back-track to West Las Positas to use Foothill to reach Stoneridge Mall rather than to proceed down the Muirwood-Springdale route? Implementation of the City's traffic calming program to date shows there is no easy definition or policy for many of these trips, but it is clear that an efficiently functioning arterial system would attract through traffic to these streets. Looking at the sources of local traffic and its origins and destinations is helpful in understanding the traffic modeled on various routes. For Pleasanton in the "Existing Plus Approved" scenarios A, B and C, the jobs-housing ratio is out of balance and, coupled with other convenient job opportunities for Pleasanton workers, the in-commute of workers is large. Workers come to North Pleasanton business parks and the Bemal/Sunol business parks primarily from the north, east and west. When freeway access is impeded due to congestion, some of this traffic uses alternative routes on local streets. Accommodating this local worker traffic is the largest mission for most local streets in the peak hour. Using generally the same routes are homeward-bound Pleasanton resident workers leaving the freeways from job sites outside of Pleasanton and using local streets to retum home, as job locations are predominantly north and west. Pleasanton residents with south-based jobs tend to use home-bound routes impacted by cut-through traffic, not routes heavily used by Pleasanton workers. Retail trips are generally only important as a major source in the Stoneridge Mall area in the afternoon. School-based trips are unimportant in the afternoon peak hour, but dominate many routes in the morning. In the future, aftemoon cut-through traffic will occur on cut-through routes in both directions. The traffic model identifies regional cut-through traffic and can be used to show some of the city-based arterial cut-through traffic. The model is not fine-grained enough to identify all neighborhood cut-through traffic, but it identifies some of the major routes. Policy 8