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out there. So I’ve watched the, I’ve had counters out there personally and done a lot of work. <br />And I’m really happy with what’s coming up in terms of safety. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Any further questions, Commissioners? <br /> <br />HENKEL: Chair? <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Oh, Commissioner Henkel. <br /> <br />HENKEL: I think I understand the traffic flow improvements you’re going to make. Right now <br />it’s just a, it’s probably the, it’s known as the most dangerous intersection in the State, right there <br />where the Pāhoa sign is. I’m okay with all the changes that you’re going to make. I really want <br />to, you know, feel confident that both of these constructions aren’t going on concurrently and <br />pretty much bottleneck everybody in lower Puna that’s down there. So, you know -. <br /> <br />MCELVANEY: I agree with that, with you. <br /> <br />HENKEL: If I have your best assurances that that’s going happen I would feel a lot better. <br /> <br />MCELVANEY: Okay, that I agree with you. Is this off? <br /> <br />ARAI: It’s working. <br /> <br />MCELVANEY: Hello? <br /> <br />HENKEL: You’re on. <br /> <br />MCELVANEY: Okay, okay. I totally agree with you. I think even without us doing any <br />construction, that’s going to be a mess because they’re routing all the traffic -. When they’re <br />under construction with the roundabout, they’re routing all, coming out of lower Puna on the <br />Bypass Road, you cannot go this way. You’re going to have to go this way and out. So that <br />means all traffic now coming out of Hilo is going to have to come this way and go out this <br />way -- all 16,000 cars a day, including emergency vehicles and trucking and everything. So <br />without construction that’s going to be a mess. They’re planning that, DOT is planning to put a <br />temporary stop light here, but we don’t think, and some of us don’t think that that’s going to be <br />good enough. So if we possibly can get in before the DOT, we have offered to put in the signal <br />light, a complete signal light there, to help the Department of Transportation in that whole mess, <br />not mess, could be a mess. So we’ve agreed, the applicant has agreed that we will not do any <br />construction in the State right-of-way and block any of the activity that’s going on. In other <br />words, we will not be operating at the same time as the DOT. And we can accomplish that by <br />doing interior work on the back side without having to access the intersection going north. <br /> <br />HENKEL: Thank you. <br /> <br />ISHIBASHI: Thank you, Commissioner Henkel. Any further questions? Motion is in order, <br />Commissioners. <br /> <br />8 <br /> EXHIBIT A <br /> <br />