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Mr. Homolka said the committee has not lost anyone and there is 100% desire from the committee to move forward. The committee had some questions: 1) Will the proposed interchange improvements be possible? In the committee mind the improvements will be possible. Caltrans, on the other hand, has different programs than the City of Pleasanton. Caltrans is looking at regional traffic and all kinds of things that the City does not look at. The existing General Plan delivers traffic to the freeway. 2) Is this a possible solution or just a dream? Does the freeway have the capacity to accept the projected traffic, regardless of the plan? It doesn't make sense to build a new interchange if the traffic cannot get onto the freeway. 3) What level of trip reduction can realistically be expected? If the committee is going to put together a plan, the committee wants to assure that the plan is going to work. He said the recommendations of the committee are 1) to prepare a project study report on the freeway interchanges. The committee will look at Stoneridge Drive, West Las Positas Boulevard and the combination of doing both. Once the project report is approved, the committee can then present the costs and proposals. As far as trip reduction is concerned, the committee found it has only scratched the surface. He described different programs the committee has come up with to help get people out of their cars. He felt the committee has accomplished a considerable amount. The committee has a good realization and understanding of concerns from both sides of the issue. The committee has made its recommendations of how it would like to continue and would like the support of the City Council to move forward with the project study report and the trip reduction study. He said the committee feels it should have as many facts as possible before taking the West Las Positas interchange out of the General Plan. If the facts say there are two recommendations, take out or leave in, then the data is available for people to make an informed decisions. The future expectations of the committee is to present the' facts to the City Council. He mentioned that as traffic gets off on Highway 84 it does create some spaces for more traffic to get on. Judith Fox, 3645 Virgin Islands Court, said if Measure B passes in November more people will get off onto Highway 84. Mr. Homolka said the committee is supportive of any measure that increases the capacity of Highway 84. Carl Pretzel, 3633 Glacier Court N., said the main goal is to seek approval for the project study report. Project study reports are required wherever the City of Pleasanton interfaces with Caltrans. He said the cut-through traffic report had analyses done with or without the West Las Positas interchange. He said the surface mad improvements cost the least, somewhere between $8 to $10 million, and would reduce the number of unacceptable intersections. Without the West Las Positas interchange, the unacceptable interchanges are reduced from nine to six. With the West Las Positas interchange, the. unacceptable interchanges would be five. One of the interchanges would be moved from Stoneridge northbound to West Las Positas interchange northbound. He felt this was a more sensitive area. He said program B is the existing part of the master plan that Caltrans has for the 1-580/1-680. It also eliminates access to 1-580 from Stoneridge. Pleasanton City Council 4 05/21/98