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resource was available, this is how we would use it; and that’s what our presentation is. Thank you. Jiro? So our overall goal is to provide alternate routes to reduce traffic congestion in Honalo, Kainaliu, Kealakekua until the southern portion of the Bypass is completed. It also provides an alternate route, should there be road closures, such as vehicle accidents or utility constructions. SUMADA: Community events. MCCLURE: Oh, the community parades. Yes, thank you, Jiro. The scope of the problems is the complaints from motorists that the afternoon peak south bound traffic during road closures and lane closures is exacerbated during the winter when we have a lot of extra visitors here. It has gotten itself its own nickname, the Kainaliu Krawl, 30- to 45-minute travel time delays. The delays can be longer than that when utility poles go down. And part of the things we’ve addressed at the Honalo junction, in the afternoon we’ve restricted left-turns out of Mamalahoa Highway. That reduced the delay by about 20 minutes. That was on a trial we did. We weren’t sure which way we’d go. We were optimistic it would work that way, it did. And then at Oshima Store we’re removing the diagonal parking and providing off-street parking in the community. We have planned solutions, and these are completed projects that we’ve done already to address this afternoon traffic: in Captain Cook intersections left-turn pockets; Kealakekua two-way left- turn center lane and left-turn pocket; Kainaliu additional parking lot and reduced parking fronting Oshima Store; and then as I’ve said we’re restricted the right-turns at Honalo junction. These are planned ones and projects starting soon: Kainaliu additional parking lot at Aloha Theatre and jug handle turnarounds; Kainaliu on-street parking restrictions during the PM peak for the south-bound traffic to allow them to go through. So I’ll now turn it over to Jiro to complete. SUMADA: Good morning, Members of the Commission. As Bruce has indicated, in the previous slide, let me go back one, this should go back, maybe not -. The previous two slides about the solutions that we’ve implemented and also some planned ones, those are all put in place in the last, I’d say, couple of years, all geared to try and improve the flow through Honalo, Kainaliu, and Captain, I mean, Captain Cook and Kealakekua. All those projects were geared toward improving that afternoon peak flow. Even with those projects and the planned improvements, there’s still a significant amount of traffic that uses that Mamalahoa Highway through those four towns; and that’s the only way in and out. This map right here shows basically the project, and it’s kind of hard to see. But this is the Keauhou area, Kamehameha III is right here, this is Alii Drive. And for your reference, this is Kuakini and Mamalahoa starts up here. Here’s Halekii Subdivision. From the Keauhou area, this portion of the road is completed. This intersection is being final reconstruction. Oceanside tells us they’re going to finish in April, complete that intersection. This is the lower portion of Halekii Street that Oceanside constructed. This is completed also, this S curve. This dotted line right here is a portion of the Bypass that is still not completed, just for your orientation. Okay, when we examined the potential of opening the road, the portions of the Bypass and the lower Halekii Street that are completed, these are the options that we considered. And in no EXHIBIT A 9