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And thanks to one of the residents in the Halekii area, Carol Kitaoka, who negotiated with our traffic division chief, one of the proposals is to put a mid-block crosswalk with signals near the court house. We normally do not like to have mid-block crosswalks; usually they’re at intersections. In any case, we’re proposing to put a mid-block crosswalk with signals to provide a safe pedestrian crossing near the court house.Also, we want to lengthen the right and left turn storage lanes at the top of Halekii Street at the signal light with Mamalahoa. And that’s just to separate the traffic better; so when you do get green, it flows better. And the last one was to open Yamagata Road for Hokulia construction vehicles only. There’s quite amount of concern about the use of Yamagata Road and that actually be used instead of opening Halekii to the public. We have looked at Yamagata Road. There are some problems safety-wise with using Yamagata; and upgrading it to handle two-way traffic would be a major effort, we think. But, anyway, it is a usable roadway, it is one lane. We would propose that during the 3:30 to 6:30 operation we would restrict or have the Hokulia construction vehicles use that road mainly to deal with the noise issue of the construction trucks using their jake brakes or compression brakes. So those are the proposed mitigation, short-term mitigation measures. This is an older version of the map that I showed you. Long-term mitigations, three to five years, it would take us that long to build or construct these improvements; and that’s why they’re termed long-term. On Alii Drive to install permanent traffic signals at Kaleiopapa, Royal Poinciana, Lunapule and also Hualalai intersections, to install the traffic signals there. Construct community bike and pedestrian path mauka of Alii Drive between Kamehameha III and the Kaleiopapa intersections in Keauhou. This community pathway would be off of the road, not on the roadway itself. It would be separated by the terrain, but it will be on the mauka side. Let’s see, further, resolve bike pedestrian right-of-way issues on Alii Drive. Throughout Alii Drive from Kailua to Keauhou there are problems that we have that relate to bikes and pedestrians and the other kind of encroachments into the roadway that make safe traffic through on Alii Drive a problem. And also install smart signs along Alii Drive, just like the ones that we talked about for Halekii Street. Long-term measures for Halekii Street is to upgrade the traffic signal at Halekii and Mamalahoa Highway, and then also to restrict truck traffic through the residential section of Halekii Street. Actually that last bullet we can probably do sooner than three to five years from now, but, anyway, those are the measures. These are some of the things we still have to do. If the Council approves lifting the restriction on the zoning ordinance that you folks are going to be considering today and we proceed with instituting a 3:30 to 6:30 PM peak operation, we still need to do some of these things to make that effort successful. The only one I want to point out right now is the one about developing, monitoring, and test evaluation criteria. You know, basically we’re going to handle this as a test or a trial period. As in any test you’d want to know how you know if you’re successful or not. And in order to do that there’s some measures and criteria we need to establish, both before we implement the test and then after we implement the test. And one of the good things that came out of the, well, a lot of good things came out of the community meetings that we had, was the idea that we involve the community in being part of the monitoring. So they will be part of our, you know, Ron Thiel’s crew that goes out there and sees how are the improvements working. So I thought that was a great idea; and we can do that. EXHIBIT A 14