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the freeways flow better so drivers will stay on them. The City as a whole will benefit. Those who reside near the entryways, like Sunol Boulevard, will be inconvenienced, but it is for the betterment of the whole City. He supported continuing metering on Sunol, even during the rest of the construction. He would not like those who have gone through the learning process to stay on the freeway become retrained to get off the freeway again. David Lamont, 4974 Middleton, asked Council to discontinue metering on Sunol Boulevard. It should not be taken lightly that 43% of the cars coming off onto Sunol Boulevard are local residents. It is a big disruption to the commuter with a 40 minute commute who then has another ten minutes added when arriving at home. He believed part of the solution to the traffic problem is to look at the two types of traffic: local residents trying to get home and the cut-through drivers. He believed the solution was metering the exits of Pleasanton, not the entrances. If you let people in to town, the residents can do what they need to do. If you prevent people from exiting in a timely manner, then those cut-through will suffer from the delays which is what is happening now, but it is impacting local residents as well. He encouraged on ramp metering but requested Council to mm off the meters at Sunol Boulevard. Anne Fox, 2866 Garden Creek Circle, said she lived dose to the Santa Rita/Stoneridge intersection. She has always taken the 680/Stoneridge exit to get home and would continue to take that even if there is no traffic on 580. She believed that if the on ramp meters are turned on, there will be a back up of traffic on Hopyard, Hacienda and Santa Rita. It is worth a try when Livermore tums on its metering lights. However, if that is done in conjunction with metering the west/east bound traffic at Stoneridge Drive and Owens, it will canse gridlock in those areas. Not only is there backups in the north/south direction of people trying to get on to the freeway, it would also stop the east/west flow of traffic on Stonefidge Drive and Owens. That would cause residents as well as cut-through drivers to turn into neighborhoods to avoid the traffic; similar to what happened off of Sunol Boulevard. This would create a problem where there is none today. If on ramp metering to 1-580 is activated, she asked Council not to meter Stoneridge and Owens at the same time. She then referred to a "Pleasanton Weekly" article in September 2001 that indicated 38,000 cars mm on to Santa Rita from either Stoneridge or West Las Positas. The statistics indicate 30% is cut-through traffic, so that means 11,000 would be held up by metering, but 27,000 would be Pleasanton residents. She did not support Stoneridge and Owens meteaSng. She described the configuration ofi-680 with the southbound flyover to 1-580 and indicated the two fastest lanes on 1-580 are on the far right. She believed it might be dangerous to put metering on some of those intersections where cars would go from a complete stop to trying to merge with fast moving traffic at Hopyard and Hacienda. She asked staff if it had considered that. Mr. Knowles said it is more of a problem when twelve cars try to merge than for one car to accelerate to merge with traffic. The biggest problem is when too many cars t~y to get in all at once and a bottleneck is created. That is what metering would solve. Ms. Fox related her experience in driving to Silicon Valley driving from 680 on Mission Boulevard to 880. There is metering at Dixon Landing and it is on the right hand side where traffic is moving slowly. She reiterated the opposite occurs on 580 where the left lanes are slow and the right lanes are faster. Pleasanton City Council 18 02/18/03 Minutes