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Mr. Knowles said they have modeled existing conditions and existing parts approved and in those scenarios there is no West Las Positas interchange. Of the various scenarios just mentioned, the City has not modeled build out without West Las Positas. What has been seen is with the reduction in cross town traffic on Stoneridge we would expect the same thing on West Las Positas, whether the interchange existed or not. It seemed to only help the situation by keeping the freeway flowing. Ms. Ayala asked how many intersections are over LOSD? Mr. Knowles replied the type of modeling they were doing, rather than looking at literal levels of service, the City was using those kinds of maps that were shown at some of the workshops. This is total numbers of cars either increasing or decreasing on a roadway, but not breaking it down to exact number of left tums, right tums, or through traffic. The City saw general trends of traffic service along roadways. Ms. Ayala asked if the City was metering in these three areas in order to make the model work for changes in Hacienda Business Park? Mr. Knowles said no. The Business Park was told that by getting cut through traffic off of roadways such as Stoneridge, this provides more internal capacity for Pleasanton trips. The City is doing this not associated with any development, just as a continuing straggle to reduce cross town and cut through traffic. A major goal of the community is to reduce regional cut through traffic that the City would prefer simply stay on the freeway. The City of Dublin staff reports say the exact same thing; please turn on metering because we believe it will reduce traffic on Dublin Boulevard because there is cut through on this road. The southbound on ramps from Dublin and the northbound on ramps from Pleasanton to go eastbound on 1-580 are all being turned on at the same time and at Hacienda, Hopyard and Santa Rita Roads. The hardware does not yet exist to extend it any further along the 1-580 route. It could be three to five years before the hardware is available. Ms. Ayala asked if the best way to accomplish moving freeway traffic is to turn all meters on at the same time? Mr. Knowles felt it would have no effect at these three interchanges. If Castro Valley lights were on or not; if Dublin or Livermore lights existed and were on, it would not make any difference at Hopyard or Hacienda or Santa Rita Road. Mr. Brozosky said the situation approximately six years ago with ramp metering and CalTrans told them that they would have to wait for the whole corridor to go in and unless the metering was all the way around the traffic was just going to continue to get more congested. Mr. Knowles said one of the differences here is that we are not part of a grid system, with a series of adjacent communities all sharing the same roadways. The traffic experience that Pleasanton has by being at the comer of two congested freeways is very Pleasanton City Council 22 04/01/03 Minutes