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Ms. Ayala did not feel traffic worked well at LOS D and to consider changing the policy <br />to something worse was not acceptable. The West Las Positas interchange only exists in the <br />model and there is no money to pay for building it. <br /> <br /> Mr. Swirl said if the existing General Plan is modeled (including the West Las Positas <br />interchange, Highway 84 improvements, and potential freeway improvements), and if the West <br />Las Positas interchange is then removed, there would be intersections at worse than LOS D. If <br />there is a comprehensive update to the General Plan, land uses will be adjusted, and circulation <br />systems and policies will be adjusted. The issue of metering certain gateways to the city was <br />designed to discourage cut-through traffic and the drivers at those intersections would certainly <br />miss far more than two signal changes. Once you were through the metered intersection, then all <br />the other intersections worked at LOS B. <br /> <br /> Mr. Brozosky asked if there were intersections at LOS D now under existing conditions <br />without the West Las Positas interchange? <br /> <br /> Mr. Swift said there were some intersections at LOS D during peak hours, but none at <br />LOS E. When the model shows existing plus approved projects with the current circulation <br />network (not including the West Las Positas interchange), then there are some intersections <br />projected to be LOS E or F without doing lots of intersection improvements. In the Baseline <br />Traffic Report for 2001, there was a long list of intersections improvements necessary to stay at <br />LOS D considering the existing plus approved scenario without the West Las Positas <br />interchange. <br /> <br /> Mr. Brozosky referred to the 2010 studies, which indicated the freeways will all be at <br />gridlock. No matter what is done with intersections, there will not be good levels unless the <br />major infrastructure around the city is improved. <br /> <br />Mr. Swift said he was only talking about City intersections, not the freeway operation. <br /> <br /> Ms. Ayala believed he was talking about making the model work. There is no money to <br />build the interchange. Is the interchange in there just to make the General Plan consistent? <br /> <br /> Mr. Swift referred to the way projects are approved. There is a policy in both the Land <br />Use and Circulation Elements that requires incremental traffic studies for each project which <br />reviews impacts on the existing network. If there are problems, then the project must mitigate or <br />stop construction. <br /> <br />Ms. Ayala asked how the Busch property traffic circulation was made to work? <br /> <br /> Mr. Swift said Ponderosa agreed to fund major intersection improvements all over town <br />from Hopyard/Stoneridge all the way to Sunol/Bemal. They agreed to make those modifications <br />if and when they have the school plus their project. At that point, the current traffic model <br />showed that we would have LOS D or better without the West Las Positas interchange, but with <br />those improvements. <br /> <br />Pleasanton City Council 19 03/18/03 <br />Minutes <br /> <br /> <br />