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MR. WOERNER:No. I need this (inaudible). GALDONES:Okay. MR. WOERNER:Thank you. Itis an (inaudible) that there are a number of ways that the cars can end up coming back, coming from the south, coming north on the highway to get into the site. There is a- as you can see in the photograph if you look carefully, there is a simulated or painted island in the middle which is not legal to cross over there and turn left. One of the nice things about Charter Schools that you can invoke rules that you cannot invoke in a traditional public school. We can tell parents you cannot cross there and if you do your child cannot go to school here. So, when somebody asks well how are you going to control the parents? Well, we can do it; we can make them, force them, to go only from this direction and into the site and come out and turn this direction. Now let me go over the different, some of the different variations there are probably more than Im going to show you but Im not trying to hide any, its justthattheresalwayslotsofconfigurations.Butabout1/3ofthoseparentslivetothenorth from a survey we conducted. About 2/3 live south. If parents are coming from the south, theyre going to turn a right turn into this property, go up drop their child or children off, come back out on this road and make a right turn and go this direction. Now if they need- normally they would probably go on into town because thats what most people do. But if they need to turn around, they only need to turn at this lighted intersection. They can turn left, go down Nani Kailua, this is a stop sign here. Theyll turn left on Hualalai Road and theres a merge lane to get back in, a high speed merge lane to join back into the traffic going south. So those parents would have no problem doing that. They can either go straight on through into town or turn and come back and go to the south if they needed to do that. For parents coming from the north the easiest way is probably to make a right at Nani Kailua, come down to the stop sign at Hualalai Road and by the way Hualalai Road is not heavily used. It is a road that moderate, very moderate traffic. As does Nani Kailua. They could come up here and where, right here they will need to make a left turn onto the highway and that is the most difficult part and was identified in the traffic study as the one that was most impacted. As it turns out, almost all the people who will make that turn will be parents who are going to the school. Because there is no reason for someone to come down here and make this left turn because theres nothing in here that they will be going to. So the only people, virtually, only people who would be making that turn would be the parents of the school. They will be impacted. Its going to take them quite a while to get across here in a safe manner. So, they could do that and then by the same reasoning they could either continue on into town to go to their jobs or to the store or home. Or, if their job happened to be mauka they could make the same loop come back and then they would merge back into the traffic on Queen Kaahumanu. Yes? GALDONES:Commissioner Springer? SPRINGER:After that left turn is made off of Hualalai Road onto Kaahumanu Highway is there already a merging lane there? MR. WOERNER:Uh, no. Any other questions? Yes. 9 EXHIBIT D