STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3699

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    H.C.R. No. 169

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.C.R. No. 169 entitled:

"HOUSE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO BEGIN CONSTRUCTION OF THE LEEWARD BIKEWAY IN 2016,"

begs leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Transportation to begin construction of the Leeward Bikeway in 2016. 

This measure also requests the Department to report to the Legislature on the progress of construction before the 2017 Regular Session.

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from The Trust for Public Land, Hawaii Bicycling League, Hawaii Public Health Institute, and ten individuals.

     Your Committee finds that in the 2006 General Election, seventy-two percent of Oahu residents voted to amend the Revised Charter of Honolulu to make Oahu more pedestrian- and bicycle-friendly.  Your Committee recognizes that community advocates have spent considerable time pursuing the completion of the multi-use path that links the Pearl Harbor Historic Trail to Nanakuli as part of a larger, long-planned multi-use path for the south shore of Oahu.  Funding for the path has been available for over twenty years.  Your Committee believes that a multi-use path is an overdue transportation alternative that will give Leeward Oahu residents and visitors another option for getting to work and school, exercising, and recreational activities.

     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 concurs with the intent and purpose of H.C.R. No. 169, and recommends its adoption.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committee on Ways and Means,

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair