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Cause there’s not a signal light there where Yamagata Road meets Mamalahoa Highway. And some people that use the Bypass would still want to turn north. So now you’re making more, well, not more, you’re just, it’s not as an efficient intersection as a signalized intersection would be. Much of the concern from the Halekii community has been with the increased amount of traffic that’s going to pass through the traffic signal at Halekii and Mamalahoa that would impact the Halekii Street leg. And what I’ve tried to convey to them is that that intersection, the signal light at Halekii, is very problematic as more people try to use Halekii Street as a short-cut, so to speak, for those traveling south. The green light leg for Halekii Street is rather short anyway. And that if you’re stuck in a queue that goes through there, and the community tells me there’s only like four or five cars that can make the left turn through that, that leg will back up to a point where it becomes undesirable or not as desirable as if you had stayed on the Mamalahoa Highway going south. So while people, the first couple of weeks I think people would try it. I think those motorists that want to go past or through the Halekii Street intersection south will just stay on the Mamalahoa Highway. There’s also concern about drivers kind of cutting short through McDonald’s parking lot and all the other business district area side roads and all that type of thing, which I’m sure will happen, they will test alternate routes through there. But even those as they enter back onto Mamalahoa are problematic. So in actuality I don’t foresee a tremendous amount of traffic using the Bypass going through Halekii Street as much as those communities envision because the folks that want to try it, to see if they can go through faster, they won’t be able to. The Halekii signal light the priority is north-south. That’s who gets the longer green light. Now our traffic folks can try to optimize that but I think even trying to do that the priority will still be north-south. So during this 3:30 to 6:30 PM peak, after things settle down, once people try it, we implement it and they’ll try it, I think the majority of traffic will remain on the Mamalahoa Highway. So the people that will use this route in the PM peak are those that live in the Halekii community. And taking them off of the Mamalahoa Highway is of, to me, a significant value because you reduce the amount of traffic on Mamalahoa Highway. By having this alternate route it’s like this alternate route is just for the Halekii community, it almost seems that way. Because that’s the amount of traffic that would, to me, would try to use the road, more so than south-bound motorists that’s trying to go to Captain Cook or Napoopoo or even, you know, to go to Kau. So, you know, Mr. Rho, I don’t know. I’m sorry I didn’t answer your question about Yamagata that well, but it can be done; and when the Oceanside folks come up, maybe you want to press them on whether they still intend to do that or not. But to me it was problematic in how the Yamagata Road option merges again or connects up to the Mamalahoa Highway traffic and whether that’s going to be a benefit or not. RHO: Well, you know, I think it will be easy enough to actually survey the people in that subdivision to find out when they’re actually driving on Mamalahoa to get home in the PM; and you can actually count them. If you look at the traffic study that was done, there’s about, and this is just a round figure, but it’s like 100 cars that make a right turn into the subdivision. And there are about, and I’m just guessing at this point, but let’s say it’s 500 cars that actually proceed south past that intersection. So when I saw that I thought, well, we’re eliminating 100 cars; but I’m not sure that that’s true. I think a number of those cars are going to the Post Office and then coming back up again and cutting across McDonalds, coming through that left turn or that right turn without bypassing that traffic light, and then also going into that EXHIBIT A 19