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security, the neighborhood association, but really we have to partner with the Police Department to
<br />ensure that there is adequate patrolling and awareness and even community policing officers in the
<br />area. A neighborhood watch can be started. When it comes to security along the extension,
<br />generally we make sure there is enough sight distance for the vehicles and whoever using the side of
<br />the roadway, whether it’s a bike or a pedestrian. But the extra bonus of having proper sight distance
<br />and not a lot of vegetation growing is you can kind of see if there is suspicious or unwarranted
<br />activity along the roadway. Right? So that’s how I, that’s my best answer for that aspect.
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<br />What type of enhanced beautification on La‘aloa? You know, that is an excellent question. And at
<br />this point because, well, I really wasn’t prepared to answer questions on the lower portion because
<br />my application is only for the upper. You know, but we are always looking to make sure that what
<br />we put in is functional and isn’t an eyesore. It’s a fine balance, but -. So as we look at the design
<br />and finalize the design for that lower section, you know, it will be considered as best as we can,
<br />given how much money we have for the project. I mean right now that’s, that’s always there; how
<br />much do we have to spend and the submittals – and this is getting to Mr. Ward’s testimony, you
<br />know, he made a lot of good points – and the thing that was submitted to the Council was $20
<br />million to fund the roadway. Right? And basically, that’s consistent; we’ve got $20 million for, to
<br />connect Kuakini to Ali‘i overall, that’s our picture. Right? And we need to live within our means.
<br />Mr. Ward made this awesome comment about tackling the, maybe the most challenging aspect of
<br />the connection, which is at the steepest grade along the State highway, that has the potential to incur
<br />great costs, and then seeing what we have left, and what we can do with what we have left. So
<br />we’ve been trying to be very careful with our projects in the last few years, being on time and on
<br />budget. And that’s, that’s how that incorporates into this for the design. We are going to consider
<br />it, making the road at the lower end functional and not too much of an eyesore, but we are going to
<br />have to live within our means.
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<br />For Mr. Smith, his comments again were about lower La‘aloa. He mentioned a bus stop at the
<br />bottom. Again, similar in the lines to my answer to the previous question, we are going to take a
<br />look at the factors that exist today at the portion, but the lower portion design hasn’t been finalized
<br />yet.
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<br />And for the woman that testified at the end about traffic will increase, I wasn’t certain if her
<br />comments dealt with the upper portion or the lower portion; I know it dealt with sidewalks and
<br />speeding concerns. And Mr. Ward talked about this, too, traffic calming. So as I mentioned
<br />previously, for our application there are four speed, they call it tables, or areas that have been
<br />designated to install speed humps as traffic calming. And for the concept of the speed humps, they
<br />are there to help educate and make the drivers aware that they are supposed to be driving at a certain
<br />speed limit. The current design isn’t to make them stop. It’s been a balance on the roadway to
<br />make sure that emergency vehicles or other vehicles that pass can pass through efficiently but not
<br />stopping traffic, because then it’s counter to creating a roadway; you build a roadway and
<br />everybody has got to stop and go, it’s like putting a stop light or something in the middle of the
<br />road. So there are four speed humps for the upper portion. For the lower portion, just in general,
<br />separate from this application, in the County for County roadways, there is a petition process where
<br />the communities can apply for speed humps on existing roadways. And it has evolved over the last
<br />ten years – I’m sorry, I’m going to try to make this short – it has evolved over the last ten years
<br />where based on feedbacks from the communities, “Why did you do this,” “I don’t like that,” we’ve
<br />come up with a system to try to be fair to the neighborhoods. Not everybody likes a speed hump,
<br />but some people do. Some people do want a speed hump along the street, but they just don’t want it
<br />in front of their driveway or their mailbox or their yard. Right? So the petition process first asks
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