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Redwood City Costco Gasoline Expansion Pr 7.A. - Page 226 August 20,2012 ruye iv As shown in Table 6, the maximum wait time observed was 14 minutes and 16 seconds, which occurred during the weekend midday peak period. The average wait times varied from 3 minutes and 29 seconds during the weekday p.m. peak hour to 8 minutes and 22 seconds during the weekend midday peak hour. The longer wait times during the weekend midday peak compared to the weekday p.m. peak are consistent with the longer queues observed during the weekend midday peak hour. Costco does not maintain or identify specific targets for the maximum length of queue or maximum length of wait time they wish to maintain for members at their fuel stations. However, they do seek to maintain operations at a level where members' inconvenience and complaints are minimized and where queuing from the fuel station does not interfere with circulation and operations in the parking field or in other areas of the site. Consistent with this, the main objective of the proposed fuel station expansion is to improve operations and reduce queuing and wait times for the existing members who visit the Redwood City location. The observed wait times do not include time at the pump actually fueling a vehicle, which was collected separately to understand how long fuel station members spend actually at the pump once they reach the front of the queue. Table 7 shows the pump times during the weekday p.m. and weekend midday peak hours and peak periods. Table 7 Existing Redwood City Costco Gasoline Facility Pump Times Weekday PM Pump Time* Weekend Midday Pump Time* Peak Period** Peak Hour** Peak Period Peak Hour Average Pump Time 3:26 3:29 3:15 3:03 Minimum Pump Time 1:48 2:16 0:32 0:48 Maximum Pump Time 6:35 6:27 6:33 6:33 95th Percentile Pump Time 4:54 4:57 4:33 4:19 *Pump time is the length of time(minutes:seconds)that cars are at the pump from the time they pull up from the queue and stop until the time they pull away from the pump **Peak Period represents summary data from the entire time period when data was collected(Weekday 4—7 PM,Weekend 11 AM—3 PM;peak hour is summary data only for highest hour of trip generation within the peak period As shown in Table 7,the average pump time was fairly consistent across the different time periods, ranging from 3 minutes and 3 seconds during the weekend midday peak hour to 3 minutes and 29 Kittelson&Associates,Inc. Boise,Idaho