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installed. However, the/s/ands due prevent people from cutting comers. There is still a problem at Crestablanea and Crellin. She has been waiting since July for the striping and maple bars to be installed. Her biggest concern is safety. She related an incident when she and her daughter were crossing Vineyard at Montevino. She supported a traffic signal at that location and felt it would not cause the backup that a stop sign causes. A signal would be safer for pedestrians crossing the street. She also liked the proposed roundabouts. Julie Testa, Torlano Court, supported the traffic signal at Montevino. She was concerned about narrowing the lanes. She related an experience where a car passed her on Vineyard in the area where there is a single lane in each direction and very little shoulder. Mr. Knowles had said a single lane slows traffic because traffic must go as slow as the slowest car. Her experience proves that is not accurate because people do pass when they should not. She was confused by the staff report because it appeared to say that reducing traffic to one lane does not show any positive effect. She indicated she would like to revisit the roundabouts in front of the Neal Elementary School site. There is uncertainty whether the school will be built and she did not want to prepare a road for a project that might not happen. She felt they roundabouts should only be installed when the school is built. Mr. Knowles did not write the report Ms. Testa was referring to and was uncertain about the information. Regarding the roundabouts, because they are new on a busy roadway, there is never a better time for people to learn how to drive around them than when the road is first opened. Brace Torquemada, 3072 Albumi Court, supported a traffic signal at Montevino. He also related a traffic incident when a person passed him unsafely. Mayor Pico said that blind curve will be eliminated and there will be wider lanes and shoulders, so the problems should be solved. Mr. Torquemada urged people to encourage the School District to build Neal School and that would remove about 250 cars from Vineyard. Residents of Ruby Hill would love it if they did not have to drive their children to schools in Pleasanton. He suggested putting in a speed indicator on Vineyard to make people aware of how fast they are driving. He said Vineyard is the thoroughfare for Ruby Hill and he had doubts about making it one lane. There are long backups at times now. Sometimes it takes 25 minutes to go four miles. Tim Mullane, 3216 Touriga Drive, said the three issues are speed, noise and safety. He supported moving traffic out of this area and onto Stanley Boulevard, specifically the cut- through traffic. So far the meetings he has attended have focused on mitigations for this neighborhood. He believes a plan needs to be made to address the concerns and does not affect other neighborhoods. There is a lot of emotion surrounding less than a mile of Vineyard Avenue and reducing it to two lanes. With a stop light at Montevino, he felt the cars would just go faster, since they would not have to stop. He urged Council to do what it can to mitigate the traffic, push it onto Stanley and reduce the speeds. Pleasanton City Council 18 02/04/03 Minutes