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Mayor Tarver said the regional agencies have one goal, to move traffic the most efficient way possible on a regional basis. He has heard the agencies discussing "HOV lanes". He felt this was counter to HOV lanes. He said even though Caltrans and MTC have both stated they would not implement ramp metering without the City's consent, both have invested considerable money and would eventually implement ramp metering. He said their goal is to move as many cars as quickly as possible on the freeways. He is not interested in moving a lot of cars quickly on the freeway from San Joaquin County to Santa Clara County. He felt a solution to the cut- through traffic is to install signalization throughout the City to detour cars from cutting through. Ms. Michelotti wondered if signalization would be beneficial or just frustrating to the residents who were just trying to get home. She said there are citizens that commute from Pleasanton to the Silicon Valley and not all are coming from San Joaquin County. If HOV/HOT lanes would balance the traffic out, it would be a good alternative. Ms. Ayala asked for a report to come back to Council regarding ramp metering. Mayor Tarver wanted staff to bring back other alternatives as well. Mr. van Gelder hoped to have a workshop sometime in May to discuss the ramp metering and other alternatives. Ms. Dennis believed people know exactly what streets are congested during peak hours and try to avoid them. Mayor Tarver asked for public testimony. Carl Pretzel, 3633 Glacier Court, said no data had been given for the Hopyard/I-580 interchange. There are people that take Hopyard at 1-580 rather than Santa Rita because Santa Rita is backed up. Also no data was taken at the Bernal/I-680 interchange which is identified as one of the cut-through traffic routes. He said the staff report is misleading. The report described the effect the West Las Positas interchange might have (if built) on certain roads in Pleasanton. He believed some of those streets would have the cut-through traffic with or without the interchange. He felt the data in the report was good with just a few loopholes that needed to be fixed. Judy Symcox, 1450 Groth Circle, wanted to remind Council that Valley Avenue is the only eastbound connection cut-through to the Hacienda Business Park. The report listed Stoneridge as the east/west connection and she would like that plan to be followed. Most of the local traffic is on Stanley Boulevard turning onto Valley Avenue to get to the Hacienda Business Park. Pleasanton City Council 4/7/98 Minutes