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Janice Stern Subject: FW: General Plan Circulation Network -----Original Message----- From: Hank Jones [mailto:hank@cadence.com] Sent: Monday, July 17, 2006 12:33 PM To: Janice Stern Cc: Mary Lu Campbell Subject: RE: General Plan Circulation Network Before they add three lanes at Santa Rita and Valley and Stoneridge, I would like to see Pleasanton restrict U turns on Valley by Walgreens and on Santa Rita by Starbucks. By going to three turn lanes they are only encouraging more traffic and we don't need more capacity on these roads. We need to discourage traffic and I don't care if this results in a bottleneck around these intersections. The noise levels around Valley are already beyond acceptable levels and the amount of traffic is way beyond what the roads were built for. Adding more capacity will only make the roads more dangerous for my child and other children that cross Valley, Santa Rita, and Stoneridge. You say you don't want to extend Stoneridge to El Charo even when Stoneridge was designed for this as a reliever of Santa Rita and all roads southwest of Stoneridge. This doesn't seem like a good "plan" to me. You are limiting your options and I think Stoneridge should be left as a part of the plan. When the development of Home Depot comes in, where do you plan to put that traffic?? How is Valley and Stanley going to accommodate that load? This is what I'd like to see. Expedite El Charo to Jack London to Stanley. When that's in, please reexamine the traffic mix and see if Stoneridge is necessary, see if three left turn lanes are required and make the necessary adjustments. I DO NOT think it is fair for you, in planning, to dump all the traffic from the east (Livermore) onto Valley and Santa Rita. It is making things very dangerous for our children and any other pedestrian that must cross Valley or Santa Rita or Stoneridge. Hank Jones 925-872-6224 - Cell -----Original Message----- From: Hank Jones Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 8:21 AM To: Hank Jones; jstern@ci.pleasanton.ca.us Subject: RE: General Plan Circulation Network My other concern is that the city would rather encourage all this traffic into the middle of the city instead of finding alternate routes that would decrease traffic flowing to Valley and down Santa Rita to Valley. This would endanger children going to school. Many pedistrans have already been hit crossing Santa Rita as well as on Valley. We need relief on these two streets. One previously planned relief route was Stoneridge to El Charo but you are now forcing THEIR traffic onto areas that were never built to accomidate this amount of traffic. This is unfair in light of all the planned development to the southeast. We 1