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Originally posted by Damon
The Good News for this morning.
This project will reduce traffic backup caused by cars turning left into the farmers market," Lingle said. "More importantly, it will enhance safety for pedestrians and fast-moving traffic along this portion of the highway."
Gee you would have thought a traffic light near Malama Market was more important! Another accident today about 3 PM
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Kat, The problem with the farmeres market is that it stops traffic in a travel lane on a 55 mph hwy. The intersection at Malama has a stop sign (traffic control). Now, if people are going to pull out in to traffic..... Also it's a lot cheaper to widen the road and install a turn lane then to put up a 4 way traffic light.
The DOT is researching that intersection right now. It's probably a year or two down the line.
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I have to give credit to the Maku`u homesteaders. They got that appropriation into the budget in record time. It's amazing to think it takes over half a million to do one left turn lane though. Our government in action. In the push and pull of highway budgets Maku`u has some weight.
While the turn lane will be useful - for the half million it will be useful mostly one day a week for about five hours. I figured that if a policeman was hired for $50 an hour to direct traffic each Sunday the budget would pay for that effort for 38 years. But I'm not complaining. More power to Maku`u.
Now we need to figure out how to duplicate that success for too many other locations in Puna.
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MFA have been successful, and the intersection there is likely to become busier.
The left-turn plan suggests the question of whether a roundabout has been considered, or will be considered if further improvements are to be made in future. Not that I dream day and night about roundabouts...but they are simple and they work. Compared to traffic-lights (the 20th century's default solution), they are 'way safer. Wherever the topography permits, roundabouts can be built. Roundabouts rate on safety; further, they are quieter and better looking than traffic light intersections--no poles, or lines strung everywhere. They save gas because there's usually no standstill time, they use less pavement and cover less ground, and they don't require US to PAY electricity to run them, and they still work if the power is down, if ever that should happen. 'Best Practice' for the 21st century!!!
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Okay, am I not the only one who wonders why it costs 535k to paint a couple of lines and add a little asphalt to a small section of road????
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