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ALAMEDA: All right, thank you. WATANABE: Thank you. Do we have any further questions? Ms. Bowman? BOWMAN: Yes, I just have a question. So you are not reducing it because it’s a, there are four lanes coming in? I’m a little hazy on that. THIEL: Well, the request that I received was to try to get the cars to slow down when they move, come into the business area; and they are not doing that now. So they want to move, and this is, you know, I received a lot of these requests, move the reduction further away so it gives the people time to think they might want to start obeying the law. I would rather try to get them aware of where the signage is. And if we can get them to slow down where we have the signage now, it would eliminate our issues of high speeds through that intersection. BOWMAN: But I still don’t understand why you can’t make that area 25 miles an hour zoned. You know, I’m from Kohala and we have 25 mile an hour zones. We come from 45 to 35 to 25 coming into Hawi; and we have far less traffic, but I do know that we only have two lanes. But I just think it’s so crucial for such a busy place to, and maybe I’m just ignorant about the speed limits because then, you know, -. What recourse do you have if someone is going 35 through there even though you have the bumps and things? Cause they’ll say, well, it’s still a 35-mile an hour zone. THIEL: Well, the request wasn’t to move the speed reduction too much further away. It was just to develop a cushion. And I don’t like to address the -. I like to get to the heart of the problem rather than to address the symptom. And to me the symptom is what they’re trying to address. I want to get to the heart of it. I want to get the people to slow down in the areas where we need to have them slow down. BOWMAN: Okay. THIEL: So we are addressing the issue. And if I, we’ll keep on doing it until we get the results. BOWMAN: Thank you. THIEL: Now to further, to carry that a little bit further, what I’m saying is it’s a wide street and it’s very difficult to get the people to slow down on the wide street. We have another project coming up; and if we don’t, aren’t successful in slowing them down with the measures that I’m proposing we’ll try to interject some type of a change in the geometric design in this up-and-coming project in order to accomplish what we’re trying to accomplish. BOWMAN: Thank you. WATANABE: Ms. Siracusa? SIRACUSA: Yes. Mondays and Wednesdays are going to be different. I’m wondering how people will know or even remember that, oh, today is Wednesday so therefore it’s different. EXHIBIT B 6