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Ms. Michelotti said the General Plan requires mitigations to level of service D. Regional impacts are a concern. She wants to continue pushing for regional improvements, such as Highway 84, because that can mitigate some of the freeway congestion. Shyam Chetal, 45319 White Tail Court, Fremont, indicated he is a member of the Alameda County Transportation Authority Board and stated the traffic problems are all over the Bay Area. He referred to Measure B funds and said most of the money has nothing to do with traffic congestion. He also attended the MTC orientation program and indicated there are $30 billion to be spent in the next twenty years on a bullet train from San Francisco to Los Angeles and other projects, but nothing about traffic. He did not believe there was any funding from any state or regional agency to solve traffic problems. He wanted all the mayors of Alameda County to attend the steering committee meetings to make certain the cities are represented. The two problems are growth and traffic. The City of Pleasanton can stop growth, but it cannot stop the traffic. If people don't live in Pleasanton, they will go to Tracy, Stockton and other places. Pleasanton has a good model for controlling its City traffic, but that does nothing for the freeways. He urged the mayor to participate in the steering committee regarding the allocation of the $2 billion. He did not see one cent being spent on freeways. He cited the efficiency of the Russian metro system and described its operation. Ms. Michelotti appreciated his comments. She agreed there needs to be innovative ways to solve traffic problems, such as movable barriers on Highway 84 to get maximum capacity on the roads. The Sunol grade is the worst commute in the Bay Area. Stan Erickson, 3684 Chillingham Court, complimented Council on the fine study and asked that it be available to the public for citizens to read. He pointed out that the model is just translating assumptions and wanted to make certain the assumptions were correct. He asked for a sensitivity analysis to check the assumptions. He also pointed out that the metrics being used are traffic engineering metrics. When people are commuting through a city, they care about how long it takes to get from point A to point B, not how long they are at a particular stop light. If you add more traffic lights, it may solve the traffic engineering problem, but has not improved the quality of life. He felt the micro- simulations will be an asset in answering important questions. It was moved by Ms. Michelotti, seconded by Mr. Pico, to approve the contract for $27,700 with Dowling Associates Inc. for the 1998 Pleasanton Traffic Model modification and 1998 Baseline Traffic Report Update, and ratify and confirm the City Manager's authorization to execute the contract; to appropriate $25,700 from the General Fund for this project; to adopt the revised 1998 Baseline Traffic Report and direct staff to develop mitigations for those intersections which are projected to exceed level of service E in the build-out conditions; and to direct staff to proceed with a Request for Proposals to develop a new combined micro- simulation and four step demand traffic modeling process. Pleasanton City Council 12 07/20/99