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will allow gaps in that traffic for the cars to turn left out, and either get in the center turn lane, and far the traffic coming up from the south, wanting to turn left in, they'll have pretty much a clear shot into the Credit Union. That's not as critical a movement as the left turn out. But, one benefit of having a traffic signal at the location that it is, is that it will stop traffic in the southbound and northbound direction, which will provide some gaps in that traffic stream for those cars to turn in and out. Barry Katz: How many feet is it between your entrance and exit ...at the traffic light? Jonathan Parsons: The existing distance is approximately 200 feet give or take. Barry Katz: Roughly two cars or something? Rynal Stephenson: It's usually about 20 to 25 feet per car. Barry Katz: Ok, haw many cars would that be? Rynal Stephenson: About eight. Barry Katz: If you're in the eighth car sitting at that traffic light, in traffic, and you couldn't make a left turn onto there.... Jonathan Parsons: You would still be able to make a left turn if there are only eight cars there. Rynal Stephenson: Yes you could. And the analysis shows in the print-outs that I have with me The analysis print-outs are showing that the queues are going to backup about, I think it's like a 190 feet or, something like that. Barry Katz: Is that right near the one car making alert-hand turn or two cars making a left when sharing the traffic light when the traffic light is red? Jonathan Parsons: That's assuming there's a full backup on Oakdale. Rynal Stephenson: That number I quoted you, 190 feet, is what they calla 95t" percentile queue, which is the, it's not maybe the max, but it's sort of the worst case scenario during the heaviest 15 minutes of the heaviest hour. Barry Katz: I don't want to belabor it at all, but I anticipate Hillsborough traffic -Old 86 traffic -will increase significantly, and that's my opinion. Rynal Stephenson: Yes, I just wanted to point out about the signal. Ted Triebel: A couple of general questions on the traffic. Yau took a one-day look at this on a Thursday. Is that standard procedure, to take aone-day traffic count and then to generalize that to 365 days? Rynal Stephenson: Yes, sir. Well, it's just typically what the profession does, yes, sir. It's the traffic data collection is very expensive. You know to have someone, you know, sitting out there counting all these intersections, you know, far days at a time, and that's accepted in the profession. Yes. Ted Treibel: I understand why you wouldn't pick a peak day -the 15t" or the 30`" -but is there any reason why you pick a Thursday, and why didn't you pick a Friday, or some other day?