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community, and also by resolution Public Works was instructed to consider roundabout for <br />intersections for new developments. So there is some expertise in our Department that could <br />answer your questions better, but they are not, they don’t have to be here, our Traffic Division. So I <br />would defer to them with regard to the question. They have made a determination I’m sure that it is <br />an acceptable design, and it is in use in many areas, so -. We already have one that we’ve approved <br />in another location on this side of the island that hasn’t been constructed yet. So it is considered an <br />acceptable type of intersection design, and we are looking forward to using it in certain conditions. <br /> <br />GIFFIN: Ki, did I hear you say that this was also something that the community had requested? <br /> <br />EMLER: I believe the South Kohala Traffic Safety Committee was pushing for it, and -. <br /> <br />GIFFIN: Okay. <br /> <br />EMLER: Okay? <br /> <br />GIFFIN: Yeah, thank you. Any other questions of staff? Lani. <br /> <br />BOWMAN: I just have a quick comment. Looking at, I know it’s private, but looking at the <br />roundabout at Mauna Lani, it seems to work very efficiently. And I don’t know, it would be <br />interesting to see, you know, the traffic, the volume of traffic there versus Waikoloa. Just a <br />comment. Thank you. <br /> <br />GIFFIN: Ki. <br /> <br />EMLER: I do have a couple of comments that is it does keep traffic moving; that is well-known <br />that it keeps traffic moving, especially if you have kind of an equal distribution of traffic on all legs. <br />And the other thing is that it does prevent T-bone type accidents because you don’t have the type of <br />conflicting traffic movements that can be a problem for side T-bone type of accidents – I think <br />that’s the right way to describe it. <br /> <br />BOWMAN: Can I ask a quick question? I haven’t driven down the road lately. But are there, <br />coming mauka down to Waikoloa, are there like little bumps – I don’t know what you call them – to <br />slow people down? <br /> <br />GIFFIN: No. <br /> <br />BOWMAN: Well, not speed bumps, but the little – I call them little turtles. <br /> <br />EMLER: Rumble strips? <br /> <br />BOWMAN: Rumble strips. <br /> <br />EMLER: On Waikoloa Road? <br /> <br />BOWMAN: Yeah, coming down before the intersection. No? <br /> <br />GIFFIN: To the best of my knowledge, no. <br /> <br />5 <br />EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />