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Chapter 4: CHALLENGES FACING THE DEPARTMENT OF PUBLIC WORKS <br />HERE ARE THE SITES, PLUS THE REMEDY, STATUS OF THE PROJECT AND ESTIMATED OR ACTUAL COST: <br />BIG ISLAND <br />SITE REMEDY STATUS COST <br />1, Kea'au -Pahoa Road <br />Installed <br />@ Pahoa- Kapoho Road <br />Traffic signal <br />construction <br />$304,300 <br />2, Kea'au-Pdhoa Road Q Kahakai Boulevard <br />Traffic signal <br />Corsliw1ion not staged <br />$450,000 <br />3. Kea'au -Pahoa Road @ Old Pahoa <br />Based on effect of <br />To be <br />To be <br />Road & Old Government Road <br />nearby improvements <br />determined <br />determined <br />4, Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway <br />@ Waikoba Beach Drive <br />Traffic signal <br />Installed <br />$1.8 million <br />5, Queen Ka'ahumanu Highway <br />@ Hinalani Street <br />Traffic signal <br />Installed <br />9698,732 <br />6. Saddle Road, mile posting 13.4 <br />to 16,8, between Hilo and <br />Safety <br />To be <br />To be <br />the Mauna Kea Access Road <br />improvements <br />determined <br />determined <br />7, Saddle Road, mile posting <br />14.1 to 14.4, between Hilo and <br />Safety <br />Under <br />$59.1 <br />the Mauna Kea Access Road <br />improvements <br />construction <br />million <br />8, Mamalahoa Highway, mile <br />Construction <br />Construction <br />posting 90.7 to 91,0, Soulh Kona <br />safety <br />not <br />near C.Q. Yee Hop Ranch <br />improvements <br />started <br />$250,000 <br />9, Mamalahoa Highway, mile posting <br />Safety <br />Construction <br />67.5 to 68. 1, at Kiolaka'a Homestead Road <br />improvements <br />not started <br />$230,000 <br />10. Mamalahoa Highway, mile posting <br />20.8 to 21.1, near Pu'uwa'awa'a Ranch <br />Construction <br />Construction <br />and Pu'u Lani Ranch, between Waimea <br />safety <br />not <br />$115 <br />and Kailua, Kona, <br />improvements <br />started <br />million <br />OAHU <br />11. Iroquois Road Q Keaunui Drive <br />Traffic signal <br />To be installed <br />To be <br />by developer <br />determined <br />Source: Federal HignWBy Admnistr&li6n, state DeRartment of TransoonatiM A60 1W <br />The Honolulu Advertiser <br />[Source: Rob Perez, State's Traffic Crash Records Questioned, Honolulu <br />Advertiser, March 15, 2007.] <br />The HDOT's 2008 Hawaii Five Percent Report listed the following <br />locations as exhibiting the most severe safety needs in the State: <br />Volcano Road at Old Volcano Road, Kea`au -Pahoa Road at <br />Ainaloa Boulevard, Kea`au -Pahoa Road at Kahakai Boulevard, <br />and Kea`au -Pahoa Road at Old Pahoa Road and Old <br />Government Road. However, the County has no authority to <br />implement road and traffic safety countermeasures without State <br />approval within the approaches to State /County intersections that <br />are within the State roadway rights -of -way. <br />15 <br />