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region. If you combine the Sunol Grade with 1-880, the total delay on those freeways, which represents a corridor into Santa Clara County, is still greater than the delay in the morning on 1-80 through Berkeley and Oakland. Ms. Ayala asked what we are going to do different in the future than we have done in the last 20 years? Mr. Fay said that we are going to try to manage the system better; we are going to try to get more people in carpools and get more people onto transit. The potential for selling excess capacity in carpool lanes is another thing that they are going to try to do differently. Basically they are going to try to manage the system better than they have managed it belbre. Ms. Ayala asked if there has been any change? That is what she has been looking ibr ',all along - a change in the system. She thinks it is the system tbat is not working correctly. She agrees 100% that they need local funds to match the State and Federal dollars, but they need to admit that there is a system failure someplace. Does Mr. Fay believe there is a system failure resulting in how we got here today? Mr. Fay said that he believes that not everyone has done everything that they could do to be the best managers of the transportation system. However, he did not think that there is a systemic problem with the overall management by the agencies. One of the reasons there is the problem in the Bay Area is because we have the most robust economy in the United States. When you have growth in the 1-680 corridor, such as you have seen in the last several years, it is very hard for anybody to cope with. If you take a look at Santa Clara County's forecast of jobs by the Association of Bay Area Governments, in 1997 Santa Clara reached its year 2005 job projection, eight years 'ahead of schedule. That's the reason the Sunol Grade went from #24 on the list in 1994 or 1995, to ~2 the following year. Nobody could forecast that. The traffic was foretasted, but we were forecasting it much further out. What happens with an industry as volatile as the Silicon Valley industries is that they boom and bust very quickly. Right now they are in a major boom and you are seeing the impact of that. What we have is a robust economy, and with a robust economy comes higher income and a lot of good things, but also with it comes the impact of traffic congestion as more and more people travel to jobs, to work, to recreation or whatever it is they are doing. Ms. Ayala encouraged the CMA to be visionaries. We can learn from oar past mistakes. She is hopeful that the economy is going to stay robust for awhile, but we need to have a plan. She is still not real comfortable that we have a 20 year plan that is going to take care of all of the numbers, if in fact ABAG's numbers do not come in as projected. Mr. Fay said that he would admit that they do not have a 20-year plan that is going to erase congestion in Alameda County in the 20-year period. There simply is not enough money to do that. if you go to any urban area in the world that has a good economy, it will have congestion. He said that congestion is a good thing in one regard. Plcasanton City Council 12 06/20/00 Minutes