STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1698

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 Ways and Means, 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 from the Likelike Highway intersection to Kamehameha Highway.

     Your Committee finds that heavy traffic congestion creates safety hazards for motorists and avoidable impairments to residents' quality of life.  These include an increased risk for accidents, longer emergency service response times, larger quantities of vehicle exhaust being released into the environment, and the loss of valuable time to motorists.  Your Committee also finds that windward Oahu residents have long expressed concerns about the levels of traffic congestion on Kahekili Highway.  Your Committee believes that, by conducting a traffic study on Kahekili Highway, the Department of Transportation will be able to make recommendations to alleviate the heavy traffic congestion on Kahekili Highway, and thus lessen the occurrence of the undesirable situations attributed to traffic congestion.

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

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair