STAND. COM. REP. NO. 3237

Honolulu, Hawaii

RE:    S.C.R. No. 94

       S.D. 1

Honorable Ronald D. Kouchi

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2016

State of Hawaii

Sir:

     Your Committees on Transportation and Energy and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs, to which was referred S.C.R. No. 94 entitled:

"SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION TO WORK WITH THE DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION SERVICES FOR THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU TO DEVELOP A TRAFFIC MITIGATION PLAN TO ADDRESS THE CURRENT AIEA-RED HILL-MOANALUA-SALT LAKE CONGESTION AS WELL AS ADDITIONAL FUTURE CONGESTION AFTER THE COMPLETION OF THE MOANALUA HILLSIDE DEVELOPMENT, AND TO ENABLE TIMELY FUNDING FOR THE IMPLEMENTATION OF THAT PLAN,"

beg leave to report as follows:

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to request the Department of Transportation to work with the Department of Transportation Services for the City and County of Honolulu to develop a traffic mitigation plan to address the current Aiea-Red Hill-Moanalua-Salt Lake congestion as well as additional future congestion after the completion of the Moanalua Hillside Development, and to enable timely funding for the implementation of that plan.

     Your Committees received testimony in support of this measure from the Chamber of Commerce Hawaii and Building Industry Association–Hawaii.  Your Committees received testimony in opposition to this measure from the Department of Transportation.

     Your Committees find that the 2015 TomTom Traffic Index ranked Honolulu as the third most congested city in the United States with a thirty-two percent congestion level, behind San Francisco at thirty-four percent and Los Angeles at thirty-nine percent.  Significant traffic attractors and generators in the Aiea-Red Hill-Moanalua-Salt Lake area include:  the Moanalua H-1 and H-3 Freeways' exits and entrances, Kaiser Permanente Moanalua Medical Center, Aliamanu Military Reservation, Honolulu International Airport, Federal Detention Center, United States Postal Service Honolulu District Office, Tripler Army Medical Center, Fort Shafter, Camp Smith, Aloha Stadium, Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, Ford Island, Pearl Harbor, Pacific Aviation Museum, the U.S.S. Arizona and Battleship Missouri Memorials, Pearlridge Center, and several large residential developments.

     Your Committees further find that the traffic volumes for the Moanalua Freeway west of Kahuapaani Street have ranged between 48,625 and 37,775 vehicles on average each day; and volumes for the Moanalua Freeway at Moanalua Stream Bridge have ranged between 115,345 and 96,155 vehicles on average each day over the past twenty-two years.  In addition, the proposed five hundred new studio and one-bedroom units in the Moanalua Hillside Development would add an estimated five hundred to one thousand additional cars which would further increase the traffic congestion in that area.

     Your Committees note that testimony indicated that both the Department of Transportation and Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization may have jurisdiction over the areas covered by this measure.  As such, your Committees have amended this measure by also requesting the Oahu Metropolitan Planning Organization, as applicable, to develop a traffic mitigation plan.

     As affirmed by the records of votes of the members of your Committees on Transportation and Energy and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs that are attached to this report, your Committees concur with the intent and purpose of S.C.R. No. 94, as amended herein, and recommend that it be referred to your Committee on Ways and Means, in the form attached hereto as S.C.R. No. 94, S.D. 1.

Respectfully submitted on behalf of the members of the Committees on Transportation and Energy and Public Safety, Intergovernmental, and Military Affairs,

________________________________ CLARENCE K. NISHIHARA, Chair

________________________________ LORRAINE R. INOUYE, Chair