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WATANABE:Thats my understanding. And so to some degree, you know, I think the topography contributes to the safety issues, meaning, you know, you cant see over the hill. As he said, Mr. Miranda said,they cant see my trucks cause theyre in the valley. Its same thing, see. I believe your ingress and egress is very close to a hill which contributes, you know. MIRANDA:The entrance into my property I believe its like 900 feet on the side toward Waimea to the turn. SALAVEA:If I may interrupt, if you could show us on the map I think that graphically that could help us understand what youre saying. Thank you, Mr. Miranda. MIRANDA:From my property or the 60-foot easement right here, this is going to Kamuela, its about a 900 feet or 1,000 feet; and from this entrance I can see all the wayuptotheturn,okay,whichisabout900feet.Fromheredownpastmyproperty until the turn which is down here, its like 700 or 800 feet. Its a little bit shorter. But I can see every car coming around this turn before I pull out. The other thing I was going to tell you is my trucks, we only come home to park. Its like when you go home at night you take your car and park it in the garage. Okay, my trucks are coming home empty. They come down the road and usually coming from Waimea way and turn in. When we leave in the morning most of the times, well, all the time were leaving empty. Sometimes the trucks have trailers on it. I leave almost every morning without a trailer. I pull out of here, I pull on the edge of the road if theres a car coming. But by the time I get going and I reach the turn, Im going 55 miles an hour. Im going faster than most of the cars or as fast as all the cars. All the trucks I get get 500 horse power engines in them. Okay, if you like come alongside with your car, you know, the trucks go as fast as your car. So Im not holding up traffic because Im pulling out empty. Its not like West Hawaii Concrete coming in from that Ahualoa Road to where all the trucks pull out loaded all day long. I pull out with four trucks a day. In one week, thats 20 trucks. West Hawaii in one hour I think they get like 60 or 70 trucks. My daughter got pictures. I had her go and sit at the intersection and count trucks and cars for one hour. And shes got all this stuff that she can testify and really show you the facts. ALAMEDA:Commissioner Watanabe? WATANABE:Im not trying to cut off the testimony that theyre proposing but -. ALAMEDA:Yeah, we do have further testimony and we dont want to have the testimony be redundant so -. WATANABE:Yeah, but Im wondering, you know, if were looking at this as potentially not going along with the Directors recommendation then might we want to, is there a method to continue this so everybody can get on the same page? I mean, weve got, not so much that were not going to accept the testimony, but weve got all of this 22EXHIBIT B