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within the next five years as well as traffic coming through on Sunol to avoid the 1-580/680 interchange. Mr. van Gelder indicated the increase in level of service for this area, while appearing very bad on paper, can be alleviated by taking the off ramp northbound onto Sunol Boulevard and adding an additional lane (free right turn lane) to be merged with a single through lane coming under the bridge, that would probably change the level of service to a B or C. By doing relatively inexpensive geometric revisions, we could maintain decent levels of service. There is no capital improvement funding currently. Tom Gill, 4540 Muirwood Drive, disagreed with the traffic figures for the Sunol/I-680 grade. He felt this was at an unacceptable level now and will only get worse. He felt any improvements to Highway 84 will make the Sunol grade worse. This will only lead to cut through traffic. He believed the Baseline Report had incorrect and outdated information and should not be accepted as it is. He urged Council to direct staff to include a study of cut through traffic in the baseline report. Brian Arkin, 7355 Lemonwood Way, referred to traffic on Foothill Road between Bernal Avenue and Cas~ewood Country Club. He believed this is a problem that should be reviewed. Matt Sullivan, 4324 Muirwood Drive, referred to a comment from staff that the increase of traffic on Stoneridge Drive is what generated the decision to begin the study for the West Las Positas interchange. He asked if staff had any projections of how much traffic would be on Muirwood Drive and West Las Positas. Table 9 in the Baseline report did not include any numbers. Mr. van Gelder indicated those figures would not be available until the study was done. The study would consider what would happen with and without the interchange and would take into consideration traffic to buildout. It would also study impacts on Foothill, Valley, Muirwood and other locations. General estimates could be made now, but he preferred doing a specific study. Mr. Sullivan then referred to Table 7, which also had no information for West Las Positas at Muirwood or for West Las Positas at Dorman. He asked if other mitigation measures had been considered besides widening roads, making intersections bigger, or new freeway intersections. Has the city considered ridesharing programs, increased mass transit, etc. In addition, he felt the projections of the study should include the effects of the San Francisco property development, and the Pleasanton buildout plus all anticipated development. Mr. van Gelder indicated the Congestion Management Agency' s (CMA) levels of service were a couple of years old. Since the staff report was written a new monitoring has been approved and staff can include that updated information in the baseline report. Staff can include additional projects such as the San Francisco development if Council so directs. Staff viewed 09/24/96 -4-