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<br /> This report summarizes the City's experience to-date with these traffic <br /> control and traffic calming measures, along with the possibility of <br /> proceeding with the roadway overlay and narrowing the roadway and <br /> constructing landscaped medians. <br />Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council: <br />BACKGROUND <br />In the fall of 1998, the City of Pleasanton received numerous letters and telephone calls <br />regarding Vineyard Avenue east of Bernal Avenue. Residents in the area expressed concerns <br />about increased noise and volume of traffic on Vineyard Avenue, as well as an increase in <br />"cut-through" traffic and speeds on adjacent residential streets. Much of the concern was <br />voiced through the Vineyard Corridor EIR process. <br />In June of 1999, the Council approved the Vineyard Avenue Corridor Specific Plan and <br />directed staff to initiate the City's Neighborhood Traffic Calming Program for the residential <br />neighborhoods to the west of the Plan area. The Council indicated that the program should <br />also be expanded to consider possible improvements to Vineyard Avenue between Bernal <br />Avenue and Montevino Drive in order to reduce the impacts to Vineyard Avenue traffic on <br />nearby residents. <br />Staff implemented the Traffic Calming Program and held the initial public meeting on <br />Tuesday, September 9, 1999. On July 11,2000, City Council approved the following eleven <br />traffic calming measures: <br />1. Installation of entry and median islands on Montevino Drive. <br />2. Installation of entry and median islands on Crestablanca Drive. <br />3. Modification of the Vineyard Avenue at Montevino Drive intersection to <br /> increase capacity. <br />4. Modification of the Bernal Avenue at Tawny Drive 1 Vineyard Avenue striping. <br />5. Conversion of Sauterne Way to a southbound one-way street. <br />6. Installation of high visibility crosswalk signs on Vineyard Avenue approaching <br /> Sauterne Way and Touriga Drive. <br />7. Resurfacing of Vineyard Avenue with a surface to reduce traffic noise. <br />8. Directed staff to study and develop a traffic simulation of Vineyard Avenue lane <br /> reduction. <br />9. Directed staff to submit additional landscape medians on Vineyard Avenue for <br /> consideration with the next CIP funding cycle (2001-02/2002-03). <br />SR:05:294 <br />Page 2 of 4 <br />