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Agreement for Cooperative Management of the I-580 Corridor 1) The Goals of cooperatively managing the freeway and arterial system along the I-580 corridor are: a) To provide predictable travel times and speeds on the freeway during peak commute periods to encourage regional traffic to use the freeway instead of cutting across Pleasanton on surface streets. b) To coordinate freeway and arterial operations to ensure efficient operation of both facilities. c) To reduce overall delay and ensure that delays that do occur do not impose an excessive or inequitable burden on any community or group oftrip-makers. d} To provide consistent speed and predictable travel times for freeway travel by managing access at local on ramps during peak periods. e) To identify the most congested segments and nodes in the tn~nsportation system and explore means to reduce these "hot spots." 2) I-580 should be metered in a manner that effectively facilitates corridor movement and fairly accommodates the need for local access to the freeway. This plan shall a) Ensure that queues from metered ramps do not impede operation of intersections, streets or block access to private property. b) Ensure that no communities are burdened with ramp delays that are disproportionate or excessive. c) Ensure that each community will have at least as much access to the freeway as it had prior to ramp metering. d) Ensure that if queues at metered on-ramps cannot be accommodated within the constraints defined above, metering rates will be set to allow congestion to build on the freeway mixed flow lanes during peak periods.