With supporters and sponsors of House Bill 2030 and other legislation packing Executive Chambers, Gov. Neil Abercrombie signed five measures Tuesday (July 10) intended to improve traffic and safety.

HB 2030 requires motorists to “move over” when passing “a stationary emergency vehicle on a highway” and for drivers to slow down “to a reasonable and prudent speed that is safe under the circumstances when an emergency road situation exists ahead of the driver.”

The other measures ban aerial luminaries, establish a Safe Routes to School program within the DOE, call for the study of zipper lane extension from Waipahu toward Kapolei and amend penalties for negligent homicide and injury when vulnerable highway users — e.g., cyclers — are involved.

The governor said the measures are intended to make sure residents show a little aloha for each other, observing that an automobile is “a great big monster.”