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Chapter 4: CHALLENGES FACING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS <br />Chapter 4 <br />CHALLENGES FACING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC <br />WORKS <br />FINDING: Hawaii Island Roads are comprised of a network of County, <br />State, Federal, and privately owned and maintained roads. <br />County lacks Hawaii County recognizes 941.76 miles as County roads; 122.6 <br />authority to remedy miles as accepted "roads -in- limbo "; and 286.3 miles as "paper <br />roads ". <br />road safety issues [Sources: Hawaii County FY2007 -2008 Annual Report, and Hawaii County <br />on all Hawaii website, "Roads in Limbo Fact Sheet'; February 2009.] <br />Island While the stated mission of the Highway Fund is "to maintain and <br />to continually improve the County's roadway transportation <br />Roads. system for a safe and efficient movement of people and goods <br />around the island ", the Department of Public Works faces <br />challenges shared by other counties and local municipalities <br />where transportation infrastructure is comprised of roads, bridges, <br />and flood controls owned and /or maintained by multiple <br />governmental jurisdictions as well as private landowners. <br />When used in this chapter, "Hawaii Island Roads" <br />collectively refers to County and State roads on Hawaii <br />Island. <br />FINDING: <br />We compared Hawaii Island's traffic crash rates with national, <br />state, and county crash rates, and reviewed industry reports of <br />County lacks <br />roadway factors contributing to crashes as well as recommended <br />to <br />practices for reducing crashes from the U.S. Department of <br />authority remedy <br />y y <br />Transportation's Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the <br />road safety issues <br />American Association of State Highway and Transportation <br />Officials (AASHTO), and National Cooperative Highway Research <br />on State Highways <br />Program (NCHRP). <br />without State <br />[Source: http://safety.fhwa. dot. _go v/ FHWA Desktop reference for Crash Reduction <br />Factors, AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan, and NCHRP Report 500.] <br />approval. <br />In 2006, the Hawaii County Police Department reported 7,445 <br />traffic crashes (average of 1 accident every 70 minutes), with <br />1,785 reported injuries (average of 5 injuries per day) and 33 <br />deaths per year. <br />(Source: Motor Vehicle Traffic Accidents, By Districts, Hawaii County: 1991 to 2006, <br />County of Hawaii, 20071 <br />11 <br />