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adjust. If this nine month period is given, the City can deliver a system that performs just as it would have if surface streets would have been metered. Ms. Ayala asked if the statement in the report of the combined effects of these two systems, the off ramp metering and the on ramp metering, would reduce congestion and delay along the freeway, and also reducing cut through and cross town traffic on City surface streets. The piece of it that we are not going to be eliminating is the cut through and the cross town traffic on City streets. We are still going to have that incoming and because Santa Rita is the furthest point, that is where it is going to back up. We are still going to have the meters turned on. She asked if Mr. Knowles is very comfortable that without doing both of those movements that we are not going to create back up on Santa Rita Road. Mr. Knowles said the part of Santa Rim that already backs up will definitely be documented using existing ques and existing delays because we do not want to go through the process in nine months of saying, "Remember the good old days before metering, before traffic ever back uped on Santa Rita." That is not the current case. It already backed up. The City is going to document all of the existing conditions and existing delays and have good measurements of what the net effect is of having the metering. In terms of that combined effect, it is tree that in the last staff report we did say the combined improved effect of Sunol metering and on-ramp metering was greater than the sum of either one by itself. The City will still see benefits, but the benefits would have been greater with that extra delay induced on Sunol. This was enough to really tip the scales in keeping more people on the freeway. What the City will still see is hundreds of cars less on surface streets. It just won't be quite as significant as it would have been if we had continued the Sunol metering. Ms. Ayala said the City would see fewer cars on surface streets because you are absolutely convinced that keeping the freeway traffic on the freeway at 1-680 and merging into 1-580 that somehow that is going to be less traffic there. Mr. Knowles said there would not be less traffic, but functionally more capacity, so the City can physically move more traffic on the existing roadways. James Paxson, 4473 Willow Road, Suite 105, said he did not have an opportunity to write some comments to the Council but he wanted Council to know that as a representative of the Business Park the proposal by staff has their full support. He felt that one of the things everyone is very conscious of is the need to maintain capacity for the business park. He fully believes the staff has made a very compelling argument that we will see that as a result of this process. He urged Council to adopt the proposal presented. Ms. Ayala said the model is presented with West Las Positas out, with ramp metering off Sunol, Bernal and Stoneridge Drives and on ramp metering at Hopyard, Hacienda and Santa Rita Roads. Now things will simply flow? Pleasanton City Council 21 Minutes 04/01/03