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TESTIMONY IN OPPOSITION TO THE W.H.SHIPMAN REQUEST F(~F: NEW TRAFFIC SIGNAL AND SEQUENCES -FEBRUARY 1, 2000 JON OLSON 13-631 Leilani Avenue, Pahoa, HI 96778, 965-6093 My name is Jon Olson, I reside in Leilani Estates, and I travel the Keaau/Pahoa Road, Highway 130, from my home to Hilo, at least five tim;;s a week in the course of business and community activities. I strongly oppose the request of W. H. Shipman Company to add new signal sequences on the newly constructed bypass section of the highway and I direct your attention to the following calculations in regard to the remark ley Shipman's planner, when he was quoted in the Hawaii Tribune Herald. It was stated that the addition of two new signal sequences, left- turn and through traffic, to accommodate W. H. Shipman's shopping center, would only mean a delay of two minutes per trip for each driver traveling the roam. A two-minute delay times 260 days per year is 520 minutes or 8.6 hours per year, per vehicle. Hawaii Police Department has told Puna Traffic Safety Council, and anyone else who is interested, that there are an average of 600 vehicles per hour on Highway 130, one way. That comes to 14,400 vehicles per day, times 8.6 hours, or 123,840 hours. That total, nearly 123,840, is the number of hours the people currently using the highway will spend sitting in traffic, over the course of a year, if they experience an additional two-minute delay. The Texas Transportation Institute of Texas A&M University offered ~:he following analysis in the Honolulu Advertiser on January 30`h: For every hour sitting in traffic, a vehicle uses 1.55 gallons of gasoline. If we multiply the 123,840 wasted hours by 1.55 gallons, we get 191,952 gallons of gasoline wasted in one year. At a cost of $1.65 per gallon, that comes to $316,720.08. RECEIVED time"----"s-'^ By. Dare County CamdR Comm. No. • File No. 1?ef. 1'0: Bab IJete. FEB 01 ZQ~