Honorable Robert Bunda

President of the Senate

Twenty-Third State Legislature

Regular Session of 2006

State of Hawaii

Sir:

Your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 194 entitled:

begs leave to report as follows:

The purpose of this measure is to request the Department of Transportation to install a lighted crosswalk on Kamehameha Highway in Kaneohe, Oahu, at the crosswalk between Lilipuna Road and Mehana Street.

Your Committee received testimony in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.

Your Committee finds that most of the pedestrian deaths in Hawaii have occurred along major roadways, such as Kamehameha and Farrington Highways, and major collector roads that feed into main thoroughfares. Though there is a marked crosswalk in this segment of Kamehameha Highway, crossing the street remains hazardous for pedestrians, as evidenced by a pedestrian fatality that occurred in that crosswalk in late 2005. Poor visibility of pedestrians in crosswalks, such as the crosswalk in this segment of Kamehameha Highway, is of major concern.

Your Committee has amended this measure by substituting the Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu for the Department of Transportation as the agency with the proper jurisdiction.

As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and Government Operations that is attached to this report, your Committee concurs with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 194, as amended herein, and recommends that it be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 194, S.D. 1.