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one. If you want to look at it, you can see, it’s the aerial shot. Our traffic chief was able to find an aerial photograph of the coastline and we superimposed the different improvements. Basically though what we’re proposing to address their concerns, the community’s concern, is to initially put a three-way stop at the Kaleiopapa intersection of Alii Drive and also Royal Poinciana and Lunapule. With the potential opening of the Bypass and the Lower Halekii Street, additional traffic will be introduced to Alii Drive, not only in the Keauhou area but also farther north down Alii Drive. So the intersections at Royal Poinciana and Lunapule would also be converted to a three-way stop. A three-way stop, and you can ask the traffic chief for his expertise, is a safer, in my opinion, a safer intersection for motorists; but it is also inefficient at the same time because basically you’re taking turns. Each leg of the intersection has just as much priority as the other so you’re basically taking turns. So even though one leg or two may stack up with a whole bunch of traffic or cars they still all take turns. So a three-way stop at those three intersections, a two-way left turn lane on Alii Drive, mainly between the Kamehameha III intersection and the Kaleiopapa intersection, little bit, it goes a little bit farther past the Kaleiopapa intersection because there’s a condo unit there. And those left turn lanes, two-way left turn lanes, would be where the driveways are mainly. And I would like to, not make a correction but a, that’s the official term for the two-way left turn; and Mr. Hayashi’s depiction of a suicide lane, we’d rather him not use that term with the public. I don’t think it reflects his sense of driving capacity either. But, anyway, we also want to do a special duty police officer at the Kaleiopapa intersection during the opening of the Bypass so that just from 3:30 to 6:30 in the afternoon we would hire a special duty policeman to mainly improve the efficiency of operating that intersection. So other than the times when a police officer is there, it would be a three-way stop. But when the police officer is there, then he or she would control the intersection and the flow of traffic, just to make it more efficient and maintain the safety. So let’s see what else we’ve got there, upgrade traffic signal at Kuakini, Kamehameha III and Walua Road. This was pointed out by the community members, that this intersection up at Kuakini at the top of Kamehameha III is inefficient. Or, because the Walua Road from the mauka side there’s a number of cars that want to come in it creates an inefficient left-turn capability for those on Kamehameha III wanting to turn left to get onto Kuakini. So we can upgrade that intersection to make it more efficient. Just a signal timing at Alii Drive and Kamehameha III intersection near the bottom, and then also to construct the 8-foot wide bike and pedestrian path on the makai side from Kamehameha III to the Kaleiopapa, or a little bit past. So, you know, those are the ones that are depicted on this aerial, and I apologize for the graininess. When we blew it up it became very grainy. But I think the handout that the Commissioners have is a lot clearer and, of where those improvements are going to be. Okay, and then even on this slide we have some long-term ones; but I’ll go over that later. As far as the Halekii community the short-term mitigation measures, and for the Commissioners’ sake too, I want to reiterate that the short-term is not how long we would implement this thing but it would be how long it would take our Department to construct these improvements. So we think we can do these improvements between now and six to eight months from now. This list of mitigation measures can be put in place. So first one is speed humps, and then to accompany this list is this handout that you have in front of you. Okay. Basically we’d have a series of speed humps before the Mamao Street intersection going down to kind of slow the cars down that are traveling makai. Also, we would EXHIBIT A 12