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have speed humps makai of the Muli Street intersection to slow down the cars going up. But basically in between Mamao and the Muli Street intersections where it’s the steepest grade, about 18 percent, we will have only one speed hump. And a lot of the, not a lot, but some of the concerns was that if we had put speed bumps or speed humps in between those two intersections that the motorists would short-cut or avoid them by going and using Nape and Manawa Street just to avoid the speeds humps. So then, anyway, it kind of worked out well that there’s not too many or just one in between those two intersections. Next one is to construct a raised intersection with a mini-traffic circle at Mamao and Muli Street intersections. This option I thought was very creative of the traffic chief. Basically it’s taking that intersection of Halekii Street and Mamao and Halekii Street and Muli and raising the intersection four to six inches, I forget what Ron told me, four to six inches with ramps. And basically what it does is it’s like an extended speed hump and turns into what’s called the speed table because the top is flat. But what it does is it’s a signal or a cue to the motorists that something is different on the road than normal and the tendency is to slow down. In addition to that speed table or that raised intersection, we would construct a traffic circle. A traffic circle in the center of it would have vegetation or something that would break up the visual cues that people normally have right now. Because if you go down Halekii Street and you pass through these intersections, it’s kind of like a straight away. You have priority and you have the right-of- way to go straight, and you feel like you can just sail right through the intersections; and that’s what some motorists do. So both, you have a horizontal and a vertical visual cue or physical cue that is going to, hopefully, slow down motorists. Prior to those, getting to that intersection, you have the three speed humps, so motorists will start slowing down even before they get to the intersection. And then with that, these traffic calming measures at the intersection, hopefully, will reduce the speeding concerns that the community is experiencing. Install 3-D speed humps between Mamao Street and Muli Street. Okay, so I guess our traffic chief was thumbing through some traffic magazines and saw this new technology. Basically it’s an illusion, optical illusion, that the road is flat, the road is flat like a regular road, but on the road you would paint or put, lay down decals; and the decals create an optical illusion like it makes the motorist think that, oh, there’s a hump here. Okay, so it’s kind of like a series of triangles, then, oh, I don’t know, anyway -. You know, there are these traffic engineers that kind of got time on their hands so they devised all these things. So, anyway, he saw it in a magazine and he’s going to try it. So it’s kind of like a test. But if it works, you know, then we slow traffic down, that’s the main thing. In addition to that, we want to install smart signs at the steep sections of Halekii, mainly in the upper part by the business district, these smart signs going for both directions of traffic and also in the residential area in that steep grade. The smart sign is basically like you have a white speed limit placard, and above it or below it, it has an electronic readout that it tells the motorists how fast they’re actually going. And I think you folks have seen it around town. So they have it. The significance of this is that within the smart sign it also records the speed that the motorist is traveling above the speed limit. It also records the time of day. So that by having this counter system we can have a better idea of oh, okay, so looks like people tend to speed maybe 8 o’clock in the morning or something like that; and we can then pass that information on to the Police Department. So if they’re going to be able to have a policeman to monitor and/or ticket speeders, it would be most advantageous to be in that area at 8 o’clock when most of the people tend to speed. So the smart sign is a valuable tool in helping us control traffic. EXHIBIT A 13