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more than a 20 percent mode shift, the trip reductions would translate <br /> into more square footage that could be developed within available <br /> transportation capacity. <br /> 5.6.4 Significant Environmental Effects <br /> The redevelopment of Fashion Square will substantially <br /> increase employment in the area and generate an estimated 57,245 trips <br /> daily. This equates to 429,337 vehicle miles of travel daily based on <br /> average lengtfrs of 10 miles for work and hotels and 3.0 miles for <br /> shopping. It should be noted that this is not entirely new travel since <br /> L many of the trips will be diverted from elsewhere on the existing <br /> system. <br /> -: <br /> Large increases in traffic created by redevelopment of Fashion <br />`I Square will significantly impact the surrounding arterial highways~and <br /> I - <br /> the freeways. Analysis shows that if the new ramps proposed in the <br /> Phase Two TSIP Plan are implemented, then approximately 30 percent of <br />I' <br /> the Fashion Square traffic will directly impact local arterials. The <br /> remaining 70 percent will directly impact on the surrounding freeways <br /> causing severe congestion to occur. The capacity of the existing <br /> freeways will have to be enhanced to accommodate the increased regional <br /> travel or the freeway oriented trips generated by Fashion Square will <br /> use local arterial streets in lieu of the freeways. This will create <br />1& congestion on the arterial highways such as Main Street and nullify the <br /> A- <br /> basic goal of the Phase Two TSIP Plan. Improvement of the freeway ramps <br /> and widening of the freeways themselves is essential if traffic <br /> generated by Fashion Square is to be accommodated. <br /> Redevelopment of Fashion Square and the surrounding area will <br /> cause substantial changes in existing travel patterns. The complete <br /> character of travel in the area will change. The highly peaked travel <br /> condition currently encountered only during one hour in the afternoon <br /> will become a peak period of approximately three hours in duration. <br /> Capacity of the highway and transit elements will limit the travel that <br /> 117