STAND. COM. REP. NO. 1317

 

Honolulu, Hawaii

                  

 

RE:    H.B. No. 562

       H.D. 2

       S.D. 1

 

 

 

Honorable Donna Mercado Kim

President of the Senate

Twenty-Eighth State Legislature

Regular Session of 2015

State of Hawaii

 

Madam:

 

     Your Committee on Ways and Means, to which was referred H.B. No. 562, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, entitled:

 

"A BILL FOR AN ACT RELATING TO CROSSWALKS,"

 

begs leave to report as follows:

 

     The purpose and intent of this measure is to require the installation of marked crosswalks with adequate lighting at newly constructed, reconstructed, resurfaced, or renovated intersections of two arterial streets.

 

     Your Committee received written comments in support of this measure from the Department of Transportation.  Your Committee received written comments in opposition to this measure from the City and County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services.

 

     Your Committee finds that pedestrians should be accomodated in these intersections that are major hubs in the State's transportation network.  Your Committee believes that the installation of marked crosswalks with adequate lighting will improve the safety of all roadway users and will more clearly illuminate designated pedestrian routes.

 

     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. 562, H.D. 2, S.D. 1, and recommends that it pass Third Reading.

 

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

 

 

 

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JILL N. TOKUDA, Chair