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there, there is going to be a real danger down at the bottom; No. 1, there is no sidewalks; No. 2, the
<br />people walking on it will walk on the street, not in the graveled area, which I don’t blame them,
<br />that’s going to be a real risk. There has already been one death on that highway, on that road. The
<br />other is the speed limit. Once someone coming mauka crosses that hump, it’s like we are in a drag
<br />race audience. The noise is loud. It happens anytime of the day or night. And there is no reason
<br />for someone to travel that way on that road, being that it’s 25 miles an hour. And to my knowledge
<br />I don’t recall, I’ve seen one policeman up there, not at -. And someone has got to start to control
<br />the speed limit because there is going to be more deaths on that street even before you complete this
<br />extension.
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<br />J. LEDERER: And there has been one across the street from our house -.
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<br />L. LEDERER: Yeah.
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<br />GIFFIN: Any more time on him?
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<br />L. LEDERER: The other is, like I said, the pedestrians concern. Is there -. And if I’m trying to get
<br />to, I substitute teacher, I’m trying to get to school, one of the schools, I’ve got a challenge down at
<br />the bottom of La‘aloa Drive where it connects to Ali‘i. And it’s a real dangerous situation even
<br />now because you have lots of traffic coming down from the people that live up there, as well as
<br />people driving Ali‘i Drive. And four, five, six cars are backed up on La‘aloa, not counting the
<br />number of cars that are going, pass you that you’ve got to wait for.
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<br />ARAI: One minute left.
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<br />L. LEDERER: Okay. I would like to have access to the final impact report and the CCS (sic)
<br />report, if I can, please. That’s all I have.
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<br />GIFFIN: Thank you. Sir, your name?
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<br />HERNANDEZ: Thank you, Ms. Giffin. Thank you. My name is Mike Hernandez, and I live on
<br />Daytona 500 Track Way, better known as La‘aloa. I live on Lupalupa and La‘aloa Street. I’ve been
<br />there, and I was on the advisory committee when we first started this particular ordeal, and basically
<br />I think it was shoved down in their throats. But from Mahiehie Street, which is the junction right
<br />above where you see Ali‘i Parkway, the proposed Parkway, there is going to be a roundabout there.
<br />And the only concern we have now – we can’t do anything about it, it’s a done deal – but what I ask
<br />them is the same thing that these two people asked before: We need some calming devices. This
<br />area is highly traveled with a lot of speed coming down. I’m not so sure, the engineer said 14
<br />percent grade, I think we have about 20 percent grade. You come down fast. Once you leave the
<br />top of that hill where the dead-end is at and once you get to Kapukapu, it’s a straight down. And
<br />where La‘aloa makes a little curve, it’s a blind sight; you can’t see the neighbors on the right side.
<br />We did have a death there about a few years ago; a tire went loose, killed the guy, then the tire went
<br />into a house on the right hand side of La‘aloa Street. One of the proposals that we had made, and I
<br />saw it on the drawings and I’m happy for the engineering, is that exactly where the Ali‘i Drive
<br />Parkway is proposed, the roundabout there, it was going to be the alternative probably to take the
<br />road over to Pāhoehoe Park, which seems to be a pretty good idea there. But all I’m asking for right
<br />now is that for the neighborhood that we live in, just a little section between Mahiehie down to Ali‘i
<br />Drive, we put in some calming devices. If we have to put speed humps, let’s put them in there. I
<br />know it’s not a comparable situation, but you have to live on Daytona 500 and you know what
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