Bill Text: HI HCR100 | 2012 | Regular Session | Introduced

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Bill Title: Requesting the City and County of Honolulu to prohibit parking on Date Street between Kapiolani Boulevard and La'au Street during certain hours.

Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)

Status: (Engrossed - Dead) 2012-04-02 - (S) Referred to TIA/PGM. [HCR100 Detail]

Download: Hawaii-2012-HCR100-Introduced.html

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

H.C.R. NO.

100

TWENTY-SIXTH LEGISLATURE, 2012

 

STATE OF HAWAII

 

 

 

 

 

HOUSE CONCURRENT

RESOLUTION

 

 

Requesting THE CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU to PROHIBIT PARKING ON DATE STREET BETWEEN KAPIOLANI BOULEVARD AND LAAU STREET DURING THE MORNING HOURS TO ALLEVIATE TRAFFIC CONGESTION.

 

 

 


     WHEREAS, traffic congestion continues to increase around Hawaii's schools; and

 

     WHEREAS, the five way intersection at Kapiolani Boulevard, Date Street, and Kamoku Street is situated along a major corridor that accommodates traffic coming off of the H-1 Freeway; and

 

     WHEREAS, Iolani School is a college preparatory school for over 1,800 students in grades K-12; and

 

     WHEREAS, Iolani School has two areas where students are dropped off and picked up from school including one for the upper school that is situated on Kamoku Street and another for the lower school that is situated on Laau Place; and

 

     WHEREAS, the roads around Iolani School handle a tremendous volume of traffic during the morning hours when students are either driving to or being dropped off at school; and

 

     WHEREAS, although the City and County of Honolulu already prohibits parking on the makai side of Date Street between Kapiolani Boulevard and Laau Street during the afternoon hours, street parking on the makai side of Date Street between Kapiolani and Laau is allowed, and continues to occur, during the morning hours; and

 

     WHEREAS, due to vehicles being parked along Date Street during the morning hours, particularly before Iolani school begins its instructional day, traffic backs up on Date Street as drivers approaching Laau Street from the east turn right into Laau Street to drop off students which prevents vehicles wishing to continue straight along Date Street from doing so; and

 

     WHEREAS, prohibiting vehicles from parking along Date Street between Kapiolani Boulevard and Laau Street during the morning hours would alleviate this congestion as vehicles wishing to turn into Laau Street could use the right lane on Date Street and vehicles wishing to proceed straight could use the left lane; now, therefore,

 

     BE IT RESOLVED by the House of Representatives of the Twenty-sixth Legislature of the State of Hawaii, Regular Session of 2012, the Senate concurring, that the City and County of Honolulu is requested to prohibit parking along the makai side of Date Street between Kapiolani Boulevard and Laau Street during the morning hours when traffic entering and leaving Iolani School is at its peak; and

 

     BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that certified copies of this Concurrent Resolution be transmitted to the Mayor of the City and County of Honolulu, Chairperson of the Honolulu City Council, and the Director of the Department of Transportation Services of the City and County of Honolulu.

 

 

 

 

OFFERED BY:

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Report Title: 

Requesting the City and County of Honolulu to prohibit parking on Date Street between Kapiolani Boulevard and La'au Street during certain hours.

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