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<br />Saltworks Proposal- Transportation Group Summary Report (22 January 2010) <br /> <br />7A - ATTACHMENT NO.4 <br />Page 11 <br /> <br />daily analysis from the new Draft General Plan, both the Woodside Road and Whipple Avenue corridors are <br />operating at LOS E between EI Camino Real and US 101. The section of US 101 corridor operates at LOS E or <br />F. LOS E represents conditions at capacity and LOS F stop-and-go operations during peak traffic periods. <br /> <br />In terms of the existing peak hour intersection operations, the intersection of Woodside Road I Broadway I US <br />101 southbound ramp is operating at LOS F during both the AM and PM peak hours. The intersections of Whipple <br />Avenue I Veterans Boulevard and Woodside Road I Veterans Boulevard both currently operate at LOS D (nearing <br />capacity) during the PM peak hour. The San Mateo County Transportation Authority has been and is currently <br />investigating potential improvements at the Woodside I US 101 interchange to improve the existing operations; <br />however, a final plan has not been identified at this time. <br /> <br />Since these key corridors and intersections are currently operating at capacity and, in some cases are over <br />capacity, under existing conditions, they do not have excess capacity to easily absorb increases in traffic from the <br />Saltworks project, and the future operations of these intersections will be a key consideration in any evaluation of <br />the Saltworks project. Preliminary transportation models indicate that some increases in traffic based on the <br />addition of the Saltworks project will occur, even though definitive numbers are not available. However, due to the <br />various traffic reduction approaches that the applicant has incorporated into the plan, the extent of that impact is <br />variable and includes travel demand measures that may offset this impact. With recognition of current conditions <br />on Redwood City roadways, the dynamics of a project at the scale and magnitude of Saltworks therefore has the <br />potential to alter existing dynamics through displacement and replacement of existing trips. This will be a primary <br />focus in a CEQA analysis of traffic impacts and potential mitigation of the proposed project. <br /> <br />4 <br />