STAND. COM. REP. NO. 33

                                   Honolulu, Hawaii
                                                     , 1999

                                   RE:  S.B. No. 1216
                                        




Honorable Norman Mizuguchi
President of the Senate
Twentieth State Legislature
Regular Session of 1999
State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental
Affairs, to which was referred S.B. No. 1216 entitled: 

     "A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO BICYCLING,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose of this measure is to provide bicyclists with
the option to ride on the edge of roadways, instead of merely
requiring bicyclists to ride near to the right hand curb, or on
the shoulder off of the roadway.

     Testimony in support of this measure was received from the
Department of Transportation and the Hawaii Bicycling League.
Both supported this measure because it clarifies the areas of the
roadway on which bicycles should be operated, and will reduce the
hazards for bicycle riders.

     Your Committee agrees with the testimony submitted and finds
that this measure will be beneficial to both the State and to our
bicyclists.  Because many of the road shoulders of the State are
unsafe and hazardous to bicyclists, this measure provides an
alternative riding area.  In so doing, the State reduces its
liability for injured bicyclists.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your
Committee on Transportation and Intergovernmental Affairs that is
attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the
intent and purpose of S.B. No. 1216 and recommends that it pass
Second Reading and be placed on the calendar for Third Reading.

 
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                                   Respectfully submitted on
                                   behalf of the members of the
                                   Committee on Transportation
                                   and Intergovernmental Affairs,



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                                   CAL KAWAMOTO, Chair

 
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