Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 2075, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to ensure the implementation of a safe, continuous, and coordinated system of bikeways.

Specifically, this measure earmarks at least two per cent of federally allocated moneys from the state highway fund for bikeways. The Department of Transportation is required to include the bicycling community in determining when and where a bikeway is to be established.

Your Committee understands that a safe, continuous, and coordinated system of bikeways will help to reduce automobile traffic and associated highway costs, reduce air pollution and the use of fossil fuels, promote healthy lifestyles, and enhance Hawaii's environment for residents as well as tourists.

Your Committee has amended this measure by changing its effective date from upon approval to July 1, 2050, to facilitate further discussion.

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 H.B. No. 2075, H.D. 1, S.D. 1, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Third Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2075, H.D. 1, S.D. 2.