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Highway 130 new lane already flooding... - lavalava - 03-02-2015
Just drove home and was sort of surprised sort of not surprised to see that Nan Inc. was not able to properly grade the new blacktop! Also the extra Pahoa bound lane can only be used from 3-6pm M-F!!!! No room for bicycles or scootera either. What a joke.
Rant over, when is the monorail coming to Puna?
RE: Highway 130 new lane already flooding... - Justin - 03-02-2015
I can't speak to the grading, but I think your other two points are directly related. My guess is that at all other hours (not 3-6 M-F), those lanes are for bicycles and scooters and cars that break down.
I look at it this way - is the road today better than it was the other day? While far from perfect, I think the answer is yes.
RE: Highway 130 new lane already flooding... - kalakoa - 03-02-2015
I can hardly wait to see what happens with "regular" amounts of rainfall...
RE: Highway 130 new lane already flooding... - imwithstoopid - 03-03-2015
Rant over, when is the monorail coming to Puna?
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Just as soon as the bridge from the mainland is finished and I can drive there.
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RE: Highway 130 new lane already flooding... - EightFingers - 03-03-2015
More like flooded with cars! It was backed up all the way from new merge to first (from Hilo) stoplight. This was at 4 PM today. Is this the new normal? There was no roadwork going on as the work crews had all gone home for the day. Gonna have to rethink my timing on trips into town....
RE: Highway 130 new lane already flooding... - shockwave rider - 03-03-2015
I sat there thinking: we went through 3 years of construction for this?
RE: Highway 130 new lane already flooding... - HereOnThePrimalEdge - 03-03-2015
When I drove through Monday, people were merging at the old merge as well as the new merge, so it seemed to cause more of a backup than usual. Once a majority of drivers realize the new shoulder lane is open from 3-6 pm, it should be back to normal.
RE: Highway 130 new lane already flooding... - TomK - 03-03-2015
Driving home this evening the traffic was backed up just beyond the old bottleneck (about 5:30pm). I only saw one driver try and merge there, no doubt not helped by the large arrows on the road. Of course I have no idea how many were trying to merge there earlier.
In any case, is anyone surprised? All that's happened is the bottleneck has moved. Ultimately, the same amount of traffic is still being forced into one lane.
Anyway, the construction isn't over yet, so we should wait until that's finished before deciding if things are better, the same or worse.
RE: Highway 130 new lane already flooding... - punafish - 03-03-2015
"All that's happened is the bottleneck has moved. Ultimately, the same amount of traffic is still being forced into one lane."
Bingo. Basic industrial engineering. The only way moving the bottleneck might work, is if they moved it far enough south so a substantial amount of cars can exit from the highway (into HPP or mauka) before those two lanes get squeezed into one. How far south will the widening go?
RE: Highway 130 new lane already flooding... - eigoya - 03-03-2015
It got pushed back some, but there is still a "shoulder" we could have continued to drive on (today). Why stop the traffic with those asymetrical white horizontal lines? I sat there thinking today, as I have in the earlier bottlenecks, watching as a car every five seconds passed (yes, I counted)the opposite way, why aren't there those "mobile cones" that used to be on the Golden Gate for traffic. Everyday the DOT moved the separating sticks over a lane to allow three or four lanes southbound in the morning, and reversed it for afternoon commuters back to the N. Bay......