Bill Text: HI SR95 | 2016 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requesting DOT to being construction of the Leeward Bikeway during 2016.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 4-0)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-03-29 - Report adopted, referred to WAM. [SR95 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2016-SR95-Introduced.html

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THE SENATE	S.R. NO.	95
TWENTY-EIGHTH LEGISLATURE, 2016
STATE OF HAWAII

SENATE RESOLUTION

 

 

requesting the department of transportation to begin construction of the leeward bikeway before the end of 2016.

 

 

     WHEREAS, the Leeward Bikeway is a proposed thirteen-mile paved multi-use path, eight to twelve feet wide with two-foot shoulders, to be constructed next to the former Oahu Railway & Land Company railroad tracks on the leeward side of Oahu; and

 

     WHEREAS, the right-of-way for the Leeward Bikeway was transferred from the federal government to the State in 1980; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Legislature appropriated funds for the Leeward Bikeway in 1995; and

 

     WHEREAS, Oahu residents voted, with 72 percent in support, to make Oahu more pedestrian and bicycle friendly on the 2006 City and County of Honolulu Charter Amendment ballot; and

 

     WHEREAS, community advocates have long pushed for the completion of a multi-use path linking the Pearl Harbor Historic Trail to Nanakuli to give leeward Oahu residents another transportation option to work and school; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Department of Transportation has $9,000,000 in funding programmed in 2016 for construction of Phase I of the project; and

 

     WHEREAS, the historic Oahu Railway & Land Company is the custodian for the Department of Transportation; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Federal Highway Administration has primary responsibility for the Leeward Bikeway's compliance with the National Historic Preservation Act, section 106 (Section 106), and has delegated the responsibility to coordinate with Section 106 consulting parties to the Department of Transportation; and

 

     WHEREAS, the Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration are willing to work together to convene all Section 106 parties involved to expedite the conclusion of the Section 106 process so construction can commence; and

 

     WHEREAS, this body encourages efforts to provide transportation alternatives to leeward Oahu residents; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the Senate of the Twenty-eighth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2016, that the Department of Transportation is requested to begin construction of the Leeward Bikeway before the end of 2016; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that a certified copy of this Resolution be transmitted to the Director of Transportation.

 

 

 

	OFFERED BY:	_____________________________

Report Title: 

Requesting DOT to being construction of the Leeward Bikeway during 2016.