STAND. COM. REP. NO. 2858

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.B. No. 2684

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

Honorable Shan S. Tsutsui

President of the Senate

Twenty-Sixth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2012

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs, to which was referred H.B. No. 2684, H.D. 2, entitled:

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO THE ZIPPER LANE,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the Department of Transportation to conduct a study on the feasibility of extending the zipper lane westward from Waipahu toward Kapolei, west of the Kunia on-ramp.

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

     Your Committee finds that high occupancy vehicle lanes, such as zipper lanes, provide an incentive to carpool, effectively reducing the number of cars on the road.  Your Committee further finds that the zipper lane may be more effective if it extended westward from Waipahu toward Kapolei, west of the Kunia on-ramp, and that a study would yield valuable information regarding the advantages, disadvantages, and practical challenges of implementing such an extension.

     Your Committee has amended this measure by changing the effective date to July 1, 2012.

     As affirmed by the record of votes of the members of your Committee on Transportation and International Affairs that is attached to this report, your Committee is in accord with the intent and purpose of H.B. No. 2684, H.D. 2, as amended herein, and recommends that it pass Second Reading in the form attached hereto as H.B. No. 2684, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and be referred to the Committee on Ways and Means.

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

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J. KALANI ENGLISH, Chair