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Opinion, Weather, Deaths San Jranctwo tixaminr Dec. 16, 1983 section Bleak yftlook ffoir omimiuteirs omi Potgtisu la 30-minute bottlenecks projected BSP If? is BART station in Colma may be up to voters. Page B15 By Patricia YoIIin Examiner staff writer Peninsula commuters on Highway 101 can look forward to a horrific future by the year 2000 that will include rush hours lasting up to 3 Mi hours and bottleneck delays of up to 30 minutes. This grim prognosis is spelled out in a draft report by the staff of the Metropolitan Transportation Commission. The report will be reviewed by the Peninsula Transit Alternatives Committee today.

The study was launched early this year because of growing alarm over the impact on traffic of proposed office and industrial development along Highway 101 as far south as San Jose. It predicts that future projects, together with those Just completed, will create 134,000 rush-hour trips, an increase of 27 percent over the current number. "It's terrible. It's frightening," said Metropolitan Transportation Commissioner Doris Kahn. "We all know it's bad, but I didn't think it would be that bad." Kahn said the findings present a.

convincing argument for taking advantage of Caltrans' waning Peninsula commuter rail service. Estimates by the state Department of Transportation indicate that most of Highway 101 is currently operating at 85 to 90 percent of capacity during commute hours. Added demand would substantially worsen existing bottlenecks, according to the report, and "congestion would appear where none currently exists." Traffic would spill onto local streets paralleling Highway 101 in search of alternate routes. Those commuters taking longer trips, meanwhile, would shift to Interstate 280, with some of them returning to Interstate 380. Bottlenecks might surface north of Grand Avenue on Highway 101.

"These traffic trends portend major problems which require major new thinking about the need for effective traffic mitigation programs, transit development, freeway construction and current land-use planning in the corridor," the report con' eluded. Before granting approval for new construction, cities could ask companies to provide car pool and van pool matching services, offer subsidies to mass transit and car pool users and launch programs to encourage use of public transit. Companies could also offer bicycle storage, showers and lockers for bicycle users and walkers, and allow employees to work flexible hours to cut down rush-hour loads on freeways. The report also suggests that companies near Highway 101 appoint transportation coordinators to help employees form car pools or van pools or find some other alternative to their automobiles. It said 20 percent of workers in Santa Clara County have access to such coordinators now.

To increase that figure to 50 percent on the Peninsula in the next 10 years, it would be necessary to target all companies with 100 or more employees in Santa Clara County and all firms with 50 or more workers in San Mateo County. The report endorsed better use of commute service by SamTrans, Santa Clara County Transit and the state's Caltrain, along with a number of highway improvements, such as auxiliary lanes through areas with bottlenecks, ramp metering and high-occupancy-vehicle lanes. The Peninsula committee, an advisory panel to MTC, will act on the draft report in the next few months. Eummw photo by Kurt Rogers over 3,000 kids at a Pier 45 Christmas party because he's for kids, singers for Road in GG Park renamed for King wraparound sound and loud 'Jngie Bets Rock' delights Ky-Houth Un The Navy's Neuttus band with Its high-pitched, little kid's voice, then dropped to a basso prof undo low of a hood ordering, "All right, you guys, have fun and relax." Now, they were wide-eyed, and Quinones said, "He's funny." Also on board were the San Francisco Boys Club and the acrobatic Picadilly Troupe. At the end of the show, the 3,000 youngsters were given toys and candies.

Later, at the Port Commission's meeting room, Mayor Feinstein and 6-foot-7-4nch Tony Ferguson shoppers men of the choral groups were in tuxedos and the young women in evening gowns. The young people were competing in the second annual Hyatt on Union Square Holiday Sing-off. They were the last of eight groups to make it to the finals. First-place winner, Fremont High School in Sunnyvale, won a trophy and SHQ. Second place Antiocfa High School got S2S0, and third place gave $100 to Vintage High School in Napa.

Heart Mgh School at Atherton hes "Famiies ant to keep their ctuldrea continuing on here at the hhbool level he said "They're happy with the education their daughters are getting here and want for their boys." By gong coed, the tthoni plans to tncreate Its enrollment from about 185 to 300 Stnce the an Ssnta towers mort thsn usual Big Santa By Ken Wong Examiner staff writer The biggest Santa Claus in town was at Pier 45 roaring. "Ho, bo, to 3,000 youngsters who stared at him in awe. And at Hyatt on Union Square's Plaza Deck yesterday, finalists in the second annual Holiday Sing-off for nigh school choral groups delighted Shoppers and the cop on the corner with the sound of their Everything was big, Big, BIG at the "Christmas at the Port'' variety show at Pier 45 hosted by the Friends of the Port for youngsters from The City's public and parochial schools. There was Mike Pritchard, the biggest stand-up comic in town, em-teeing the show. Mike is 6 feet 6 Inches talL Tony Ferguson, the Santa of the day, was 6 feet 7.

And dont forget the Nautilus, the Navy band with the big, wraparound sound. Its amplified "Jingle Bells Rock" drowned the siren of a fire truck delivering Santa to the party. Maybe it didn't knock off Santa's stocking cap, but he lost it anyway. "I had to borrow one from one of the volunteers," said Ferguson, an electrician for the port. Pritchard kept the young audience entertained with his antics before the climactic entrance of Santa.

"You guys having fun?" he asked. "No?" Pritchard winked and puffed his cheeks. Yancy Quinones, Ryan Larrera and Andrew Jolivette sitting in the front row started to smile. Moments before, the second-graders from Our Lady of the Visitackm School had looked bored. Pritchard mugged some more and made funny sounds.

He spoke in a Bay briefs will tot cere run their full routes Prompted by criticism from merchants and residents. Muni of ftciaks have agreed to stop the practice of taking some outbound cars out of service before tbey reach their destination to they can return downtown to pick up new passengers. Municipal Railw ay General Manager Harold Geissenheimer esterday said the can would continue to their posted destination unless there was a malfunction or an emergency. promise came it a meeting of the Transportation and Traff k- Committee of the Board of Supervisors. tides couid msen ftooding in llsrin Exceptionally high tides during next wee threaten pmodr flooding along Highway 101 in Marm County, according to the Highway fatrol.

t' The patrol urged motorists to use button and to listen to their radios for Spdated weather reports. Computer tenure debys 75 f2fiU Snmtylve flights out of San rrarrwro International Airpnrt were VHayed by at mud) as trunutn bfauw of a rompuW failure, the federal Aviation Adnunwtratjon said, The man computer that runs the ridar scopes at the Oakland Aa Traffic Control center, which governs fhghts in and out of Saa Francisco, fc.iied for about five boun Thursday TV rroriemreauRed in delays ranging from to 45 minfB for Another school tradition falls; boys to be admitted By Dave Farrell Examiner staff writer The new signs a rent up yet, but Golden Gate Park's meandering three-mile South Drive is now Martin Luther King Jr. Drive. The renaming in honor of the slain civil rights leader was done unanimously and without debate yesterday by the seven-member San Francisco Recreation and Park Commission after 10 one-minute speeches from residents supporting the change. The vote was made possible when commissioners agreed to waive a Recreation and Park Department requirement that they wait at least six months before acting on a suggested name change.

"The street name is changed this iftiflMMfr e' ''W j' i jjjfc' we Ai ry i infc" Wi ij-Tfeiy xk, -3? very moment," Recreation and Park General Manager Thomas Malloy said, moments after the commission voted. "It will take us a couple of weeks to get the street signs up, but the name of the street has changed as of now." The people who jammed the commission's meeting room in McLaren Lodge were overjoyed. "I'm glad to be a San Franciscan today," said the Rev. Howard Gloyd. a member of The City's Civil Service Commission.

"Dr. King represents to us the king of peace," said Mary Merrill, a member of the Women's Party for Survival an anti-nuclear group that supported the name change. Before the vote, Malloy told the -See Page 1 separate locker rooms and several restrooms will be designated for boys. The school plans to begin a sports program for boys, introducing soccer, cross country, basketball, tennis, track, swimming and irew. Football may be added someday, Mclntyre said.

Girts at Sacred Heart were generally enthusiastic about the switch. "It will be neat to have the school go coed," said Kyveie Yoto-pouk a IS year old freshman from Atherton. Wendy Bates, a lA-year-old sophomore from Atherton. said: 1 think it will be nice for the guys. This school bases its ideas on morals and feelings, which will be good for them to learn Yengst.

the senior daw vice president, sail 1 think Ms going to be great I see new tradition! starting" But she and the others said they were saddened that the H-hoo! would be losing some of its old traditions. "AB the girls are so done here." Yotopoutos said. "When boys come, everyone wiS come apart and try to impren mere" In the past, the gB have gone away for overnight retreats, they aid That and other traditions, ifl be modified or droppHd "We have a traditional candlelight Christmas Ma where we aS carry candlei, Yeng4 said. 1 dosil tbtfik the bnvv wifl want to do that theyl be afraid theyl look fake wept Rep. Sala Burton distributed 3,000 turkey certificates to school officials to give to students from needy families.

Major donors to the festivities were the Catholic Youth Organization, Crowley Maritime Gensler It Associates, McKesson Corp, Pacific Telephone, Pier 30, San Francisco Welding, Shaklee Corp, Southern Pacific and Gray Line. Meanwhile, back downtown, it looked like prom night All the young The es-yeer-otd, asVgsrl Sacred feehng that healthy and produr-tn far women to get a cord education." Mclntyre said. Times are changing" He said that St School, an rteraestary and middle school adjacent to Sirred Heart, has been coed ssoce was founded 90 years ago By John Flinn Examiner staff writer ATHERTON One by one, traditions at the 85-yearokL all-girl Sacred Heart High School have been falling by the wayside. First to go were the midweek "play days," hen classes were dismissed for fun and games. This year, for the first time, girls were no longer required to wear the school's distinctive pin-striped uniforms.

Next faD, though, the most sacred tradition of all will end: boys will be admitted to Sacred Heart for the first time. It's about time," said Wendy Yengst, 17, a senior from Los Altos. 1 think It 's going to be great Too bad I wont be here Since it was founded in ISM by the Religious Order of the Sacred Heart, a group of Roman Catholic nuns, the school has bad a strong tradition of educating young women. "The founder fed that the education of girls had been given short shrift." said Principal Thomas Mda-tyre. The order tof Buntl always maintained an enthusiasm for, and a loyalty to, education for girts." But for the last four yean, the KtKKi has toyed with the Idea of going coeducational Last year, despite opposition from some atura-nae.

the board of trustees approved the move. In domg so, they fnoowed the trad of other fonrnrty aDflrl Ca'ho-br attKx4t that are opening their doors to boys. 'Mart and more scnorfc are decided to go coeducation nouncement was made. Sacred Heart feai ben amped wftk apr-cations. Mclnryre said.

The school tnrated en wand ed arm alnong Valparaiso Avenue. doFfcil plan many physical changes to prepare for the boys. A ftTOnactum voder ronstruc-Una wifl be modified to provide arparungfhghts..