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metering and he wanted more information from the model to make sure that the congestion in the area of the metering test would not cause any danger. He also wanted to make certain the transit time within the city is benefited. Kurt Kummer, 4456 Clovewood Lane, expressed his concems about the West Las Positas interchange. He referred to the Appendices to the Final Summary Report for the West Las Positas Interchange Alternative Studies, dated March 2002. He was concerned about people driving northbound on 1-680, mining right onto West Las Positas to cut through to the business park, because they may not want to go to Stoneridge Drive. That is an interchange with many children en route to the local school. Currently there are 720 cars on that road; at build out that would increase to 883 cars. If the West Las Positas Interchange is constructed that figure goes up to 2,552 cars. The Baseline Traffic Report refers to collision history and West Las Positas at Dorman Road is the worst in the city. He could not imagine why the city would consider taking an intersection with the worst accident history and adding more traffic to it. Dick Quigley, 4613 Cape Court, liked the traffic model. He indicated he is a trail advocate on several regional organizations. These groups have made several presentations on the significance of non-vehicular alternatives to transportation and recreation, especially "safe kids to school". He indicated the Iron Horse Trail gets a million trips per year. He noted on Pleasanton's traffic model that it could track pedestrians. He thought it would be a good idea to also tract hikers, bikers, and recreational people on the trails. He referred to page 8 of the report that related single-family trips per peak hour to the office, to school and to BART. If two to five percent of those trips were out of cars and on trails, that would be significant. Mark Mullaney, 4966 Dolores Drive, asked if the proposed metering test would stop traffic in the evening at 680 northbound getting onto Sunol, thereby slowing traffic at longer red lights before they hit Sunol through town? In the morning, is traffic being held from going on to Sunol at Valley and Bernal? Mayor Pico said there is no metering planned for the morning at this time. Mr. Knowles indicated staff is trying to see how many cars are at Bernal/First/Sunol and determining how many cars are needed to reduce the volume to provide a better level of service and better flow east on First Street, Main Street, and through the neighborhoods. He believed that was about 300 cars. Backing that down to Sunol and Arlington, there is a light that is green most of the time on Sunol for traffic coming from the freeway. He would change that to a light that tums green every thirteen seconds at a time every fifty seconds. That allows cars through in manageable bunches so they flow easily through downstream intersections. It does cause some queuing towards the freeway, but it is assumed that as the delay is increased, some will stay on the freeway and choose another place to exit 1-680. This test is planned for only northbound Sunol in the evenings. Mr. Mullaney said that as a resident who commutes to the South Bay, he would fully support inconveniencing himself to sit for a period of minutes to try to encourage non-Pleasanton residents to stay on 1-680 or to take Highway 84. He encouraged this same metering for traffic coming in from Livermore to Bernal/Valley. He believed there were federal, state and local Pleasanton City Council I 1 07/16/02 Minutes