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TA. - Page 194 Traffic Analysis Review of Proposed Rocketship Charter School, Redwood City, CA be even higher based on what is happening in San Francisco where charter schools are getting parent driver rates up to 90%, not the 50% represented in the Hexagon traffic study. National surveys by US DOT, etc. have shown that less than 13% of K-8 students today walk or bike to school,2 ITE Trip Generation Rates for all kinds of schools, including elementary schools, shows that the vehicle trip generation rates already reflect car-pooling because the observed number of vehicles entering is always less than 50% of the number of students at the school (am trip rates of 0.45 trips/student, ITE Elementary School 520). This is not the case in San Francisco, however, where this number is 90%. There are 480 students proposed,and only 225 inbound student trips shown in Table 8 of the report. This means that even with the higher 0.96 trip/student rate used, there is already a built-in assumption that there are more than two students per inbound car, average, already. To go beyond this and further reduce the number for "car-pooling" in TDM programs is to ignore that car-pooling is already taking place, by default, in the trip generation number itself. Any additional reductions for the project based on TDM is a highly unlikely scenario and should not be seriously considered. In fact, a common-sense case could be made that since the project site is in an environment/zoning relatively unfriendly to pedestrians and cyclists (industrial uses with double parking, large trucks, narrow driveways with blind spots),that there are few parents who would have their elementary aged children try to navigate arriving to school alone without the protection of being in a vehicle. The area is an industrial zoned area leaning more in the heavy industrial uses with larger trucks. Safety NIt is my professional opinion that although there are sidewalks in the area surrounding the school site, there are also industrial uses with large trucks, saturated parking on both sides of the i nck , , street, and numerous blind spots are created by large vehicles I. parked right next to driveways. In addition, there are tall buildings immediately adjacent to both sides of these narrow driveways, and the buildings are also immediately adjacent to the sidewalk,which is narrow. This condition makes it very difficult for large and small vehicles to enter or leave a driveway without creating some tension with any pedestrian or bicycle traffic. The nose of a vehicle must enter the sidewalk before the driver of the vehicle can even look left or right to see if a pedestrian or bike conflict is imminent. This create an unsafe condition, an accident waiting to happen. For inbound driveway vehicles and trucks, this same condition is created by parked vehicles and z US DOT/FHA, Center for Urban Transportation Research,Carpooling Without the Car CUTR .SS !PRISM: Page 4 f_ ,- ENGINEERING