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City of Pleasanton—Villages at the Quarry Project Consistency Checklist 15183 Consistency Checklist 218 tracks. Providing bicycle infrastructure with markings and signage helps to improve biking conditions (e.g., safety and convenience). In addition, expanded bikeway networks can increase access to and from transit hubs, thereby expanding the “catchment area” of the transit stop or station and increasing ridership. This encourages a mode shift from vehicles to bicycles, displacing VMT and thus reducing GHG emissions. When expanding a bicycle network, a best practice is to consider local or State bike lane width standards. The proposed project is constructing bike lanes on all public streets. 4D Bike Facility Improvement – This strategy will construct or improve a single bicycle lane facility that connects to a larger existing bikeway network. Providing bicycle infrastructure helps to improve biking conditions within an area. This encourages a mode shift on the roadway parallel to the bicycle facility from vehicles to bicycles, displacing VMT and thus reducing GHG emissions. When constructing or improving a bicycle facility, a best practice is to consider local or State bike lane width standards. The proposed project would construct an extension of the Ironwood Trail along its northern border which would connect to the project and future projects to the east to the Ironwood Trail. The bike lanes would also connect to existing bike lanes on Valley Avenue. 4H Provide Neighborhood Traffic Calming Measures – Providing traffic calming measures encourages people to walk or bike instead of using a vehicle. This mode shift will result in a decrease in VMT. Project design would include pedestrian/bicycle safety and traffic calming measures in excess of jurisdiction requirements. Roadways would be designed to reduce motor vehicle speeds and encourage pedestrian and bicycle trips with traffic calming features. Traffic calming features included in the proposed project are marked crosswalks, speed humps, mini- circles, on-street parking, and planter strips with street trees. Although the proposed project would include VMT reduction measures as described above to reduce impacts to the greatest extent feasible in accordance with Housing Element Update FEIR MM TRANS-2, there are no feasible mitigation measures which would reduce impacts to less than significant.