STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1615

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.C.R. No. 182

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

Madam:

     Your Committee on Transportation, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 182 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO CONDUCT A TRAFFIC STUDY AND MAKE RECOMMENDATIONS TO ALLEVIATE TRAFFIC CONGESTION ON KAHEKILI HIGHWAY FROM THE LIKELIKE HIGHWAY INTERSECTION TO KAMEHAMEHA HIGHWAY,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Transportation to conduct a traffic study and make recommendations to alleviate traffic congestion on Kahekili Highway.

     Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation, University of Hawaii System, and one individual.

     Your Committee finds that residents of the windward side of Oahu stretching from Kane‘ohe to Kahalu‘u and even to La‘ie have complained for years about the rush-hour traffic congestion on Kahekili Highway.  The traffic congestion poses a risk for increased accidents, degrades the citizens' quality of life, and causes motorists to lose valuable time in their commute to and from work.

     This measure would identify the causes of the traffic congestion and solutions to ease the traffic congestion, including widening Kahekili Highway, providing public transportation express routes for University of Hawai‘i students from Windward Community College to the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa, and deploying contraflow lanes, among other appropriate solutions.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 182, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Transportation,

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CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair