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yet you don't have traffic lights at Ka`iminani, and part of the reason why, you know, it falls
<br /> under the State jurisdiction. But, nevertheless, there were some mitigations that were taken, you
<br /> know, at the Ka`iminani intersection to kind of enhance, you know, some of the safety aspects.
<br /> So, you know, I'm looking back again to a report that was prepared by, you know—and thanks
<br /> to you again for asking the staff to generate all of this—but, you know, Leo Fleming, Leo
<br /> Fleming,you know, the late Leo Fleming, had prepared a traffic assessment with mitigation
<br /> dealing with what can be done, you know, with—I think at that time they had collected, you
<br /> know, 300-somewhat thousand dollars—and so maybe that assessment, you know, which you
<br /> already have the funds for, can be designed to have a traffic assessment with a proposal for both
<br /> short-term and long-term mitigation, and based upon that then you can make a decision, the
<br /> government can make a decision, where they need to have, ask the, you know, for funds from the
<br /> State or funds from the federal government to fully implement it. So I mean, you know, that's
<br /> kind of my thought. But, you know, whether the applicant pays the traffic study out of the fair
<br /> share or not, you know, to me I think it's kind of like immaterial, because he is going to have to
<br /> make the payment anyway. All I'm saying is that government already has funds, you know,
<br /> right now, so go ahead and spend it.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Right, and I see that, what I'm, what I'm looking at is the fact that those funds
<br /> have been sitting there since 2005 and not spent, and so for us where we have the opportunity to
<br /> say, hey,we can get step one done now, and then get the ball rolling. Since he has to spend the
<br /> money anyway, we can, we can do it now, get at least one thing checked off the box, and then
<br /> government can work within their, their remaining funds and other mechanisms that are available
<br /> to them. But, you know, we would have at least advanced the cause of improving this
<br /> intersection in some capacity. And I agree that, you know, I don't—I'm not a traffic engineerI
<br /> don't know that a light is appropriate or necessary; that would have to come from the type of
<br /> analysis that we are requesting, I think. Commissioner Yates.
<br /> YATES: Sorry to say but I have to leave. I wish I didn't.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Okay.
<br /> YATES: All right, thank you so much.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Thank you for being here. Mahalo.
<br /> YATES: Thank you.
<br /> VITOUSEK: Aloha. Nice that we have new members so we can do that. Okay. Commissioner
<br /> DeFranco, Vice Chair DeFranco.
<br /> DEFRANCO: Sorry that I'm sort of late here understanding it all, but so right now I am
<br /> understanding, though, aren't they redoing all of the road, Palani Road, and there is no, nothing
<br /> on the books right now to do something about that intersection while they are doing all this
<br /> paving of Palani? This is a question to the County.
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