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HI SR95
Resolution
Status
3/11/2016
Primary Sponsor
Mike Gabbard
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AI Summary
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Request the Department of Transportation to begin construction of the Leeward Bikeway before the end of 2016.
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The Leeward Bikeway is a proposed 13-mile paved multi-use path, 8 to 12 feet wide with 2-foot shoulders, to be built along the former Oahu Railway & Land Company railroad tracks on Oahu's leeward side.
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The Department of Transportation has $9,000,000 in funding programmed in 2016 for Phase I construction of the project.
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The right-of-way was transferred to the State from the federal government in 1980, and the Legislature appropriated funds in 1995; the bikeway would provide leeward Oahu residents with an alternative transportation option and connect the Pearl Harbor Historic Trail to Nanakuli.
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The Department of Transportation and Federal Highway Administration are willing to work together to expedite the Section 106 National Historic Preservation Act compliance process to allow construction to commence.
Legislative Description
Requesting DOT to being construction of the Leeward Bikeway during 2016.
Last Action
Report adopted, referred to WAM.
3/29/2016