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UNGER: Please use the mike. Please use the mike, speak directly into the mike. Thank you. <br /> <br />MADSON: Tom Madson, Hualālai Colony. <br /> <br />UNGER: Very good. And we can just continue right down with introductions and where you <br />reside. <br /> <br />CULHANE: Bill Culhane, Pualani Estates. <br /> <br />ROBERTO: Manuel Roberto, Pualani Estates. <br /> <br />REESE: Wayne Reese, Pualani Estates. <br /> <br />BECKHAM: Brad Beckham, Kona Orchards. <br /> <br />MATSUKAWA: Mike Matsukawa. I’m attorney for the petitioner for the contested case. <br />Thank you. <br /> <br />UNGER: Thank you. We can start with you, sir. <br /> <br />MADSON: Yes. My assignment was to testify on the safety conditions of Hualālai Road. But <br />before I do that, this is a petition to request a base yard and a rock crushing facility, and there has <br />been a rock crushing facility down the road about a mile away, West Hawai‘i Concrete, where <br />they have constant water spray to keep the dust conditions down, they’ve been in business for <br />decades; why we need another one within a mile that doesn’t spray water, constant dust, and <br />creating a health problem with a school nearby. But I’m supposed to testify about road safety, so <br />I will do that. <br /> <br />According to the National Highway Safety Conditions, there are several criteria as far as safety <br />of the road: the width of the lanes, the line of sight, the width of the shoulder, the radius of the <br />turns and the banking of the turns. In many cases on Hualālai Road the roads are banked the <br />wrong way away from the inside radius instead of into it. And I know why that was done; it was <br />so, since it’s in a flood zone, there’s water drainage issues. Anyway, in every one of these <br />categories Hualālai Road fails. It’s considered a substandard road, and substandard road means <br />unsafe. <br /> <br />The next thing I would like to show you, and I’m sorry, I just found these pictures this morning – <br />if you would just pass them down, as I testify — is for the short time that I’ve lived at this <br />location in this subdivision, because of the road conditions, telephone poles have been hit four <br />times, knocked down, knocked our electricity out, and closed the road for a day to some, in one <br />instance two days, before they could re-erect the telephone poles. So that is another great <br />concern. <br /> <br />And the next thing I would like to testify – and I’ve submitted these pictures, but I guess you <br />don’t have them in front of you, I’ll pass these down – is the trucks that are being driven on the <br />road cannot traverse the corners and stay in their lane; they have to cross the centerline of the <br />2 <br />EXHIBIT D <br /> <br />