Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Second State Legislature

Regular Session of 2003

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred S.B. No. 464, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to relieve traffic congestion and improve efficiency of transportation on Oahu.

Specifically, this bill requires the Department of Transportation, in conjunction with the Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization and the City and County of Honolulu, to develop an action plan for implementation of a fixed rail transit system or monorail on Oahu, describing site selection and feasibility, structure of the transit operations and facility development, economic analyses and financing, permits and approvals, and design and construction. The plan is to be submitted to the Legislature no later than twenty days prior to the convening of the Regular Session of 2004. The bill further requires the Department of Transportation to begin the process of acquiring land for the system.

Your Committee finds that the building a fixed rail transit system or monorail on Oahu has been and remains a subject of sharp debate in the community with cogent and informative points of view being expressed on both sides.

Upon further consideration, and in the interest of stimulating further discussion, your Committee has amended this bill to take effect on July 1, 2025, and by making other technical nonsubstantive amendments.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Ways and Means that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of S.B. No. 464, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as S.B. No. 464, S.D. 2.