Transportation director's duties and powers

The director of transportation services shall: (1) Be authorized to issue permits for the movement of vehicles, equipment, or other objects of excessive weight, width, or height as prescribed by law; (2) Be responsible for the collection of revenue from on-street and off-street parking meters and for the construction and maintenance of multideck parking lots; (3) Plan, develop, promote, and coordinate: (A) Ridesharing programs, which include but are not limited to carpool, vanpool, taxipool, and buspool programs. The director shall assist organizations interested in promoting ridesharing programs, arrange for contracts with private organizations to manage and operate the programs, and assist in the formulation of ridesharing arrangements. Ridesharing programs include informal arrangements in which two or more persons ride together in a motor vehicle to and from work or school; and (B) Other transportation systems management programs, which include but are not limited to alternate work hours programs and bicycling programs; (4) Prepare a bikeway system and master plan for urban Honolulu to be submitted to the council for approval, and thereafter prepare and submit for council approval revisions to the plan at least every five years after the adoption of the plan by the council. The bikeway system in the plan shall, at a minimum, connect the following principal bicycle destinations: (A) Waikiki; (B) Diamond Head; (C) The University of Hawaii and Manoa Valley; (D) Punchbowl; (E) The Hawaii Capital Special District; (F) Chinatown; (G) Aloha Tower; (H) The State Waterfront Park and redevelopment area; (I) Ala Moana Beach Park; (J) The airport area; and (K) Military bases; (5) Be responsible for the: (A) Planning, administration, and coordination of programs and projects that are: (i) Proposed to be funded, wholly or partially, under the federal Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, as amended, the Federal Aid Highway Act of 1973, as amended, or any other federal law or regulation; and (ii) Required to be transmitted by the city to the Oahu metropolitan planning organization; In the planning, administration, and coordination of the programs and projects, the director shall consult with the department of planning and permitting. When deemed appropriate, the director may assign the responsibility for planning and administering a particular program or project to the department of planning and permitting; (B) Receipt of federal funds for the programs and projects and: (i) Expenditure of those federal funds appropriated to the department of transportation services; and (ii) With respect to those federal funds appropriated to the department of planning and permitting, apportionment of the funds to that department for expenditure; (C) Preparation of the short-range transit plan and any update. The “short-range transit plan” has the same meaning as defined in § 4-2.1 ; and (6) Manage and maintain all commercial parking facilities except facilities that are attached or adjacent to a building or project managed by another city agency. )