Milo Street traffic cam

[Lee M-S]

The county pays for pavement and upkeep on Road 8 (at least the part they've adopted); HA owners pay for all the other roads.

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[lquade]

yes lee, the county did pay for 10 feet wide road, HA paid the other side. but the point was it was an emergency road, no heavy trucks, sidewalks, bikepaths, many many promises made. i was trying to warn HPP people that when the county says railroad will be emergency also that they dont always hold to their promises.
i dont know if railroad is already a county roadway. if so, they improved their own roadway (with tax payer funds) so i dont believe they will ever close it now. but road 8 is a private road that the county is talking about diverting traffic into. this was not planned as an alternate route for traffic jams. it is going to be a dangerous situation as the current speed limit is 25mph and i dont think puna commuters are used to that speed..there are not even stop signs at all the cross roads or turnouts or line of sights on this rollar coaster type road.. safe somewhat at 25mph but not as a commuter route.

[kalakoa]

i dont know if railroad is already a county roadway.

Road-shaped private property, owned by HPPOA, HSCA, or State, depending which part; some of the property was already condemned and absorbed into an adjacent parcel.

Direct violation of County Code prohibiting improvement of substandard roads.

Emergency-driven "spot zoning" at its finest!

[lquade]

thank you kalakoa, i wondered what the status was. so the part the county improved was that owned by the state? or did hpp give them permission to improve their roads? so interesting, the whole road thing, and where funding is given and withheld. for example, i heard the turn lane into the market on 130 cost 600K. for a market that is open one day a week... wonder whose palms took that buttering? hawaii, gotta love it!

[Mimosa]

More tax payer waste money - A BMW - Big Money Waste.
Rd 8 is a nightmare,uneven and flood prone.
Traffic on Rd 8 during rush hour each day is bumper to bumper at 50mph.Dangerous at best and county has no say on speeds or accidents.
Travel at own risk .
Maybe speed bumps placed every driveway would help.
And be wary when people straddle the center line from C rd to front cause so bumpy and then all the speeders passing any one going 45,especially over the blind hills.
Catch air over the natural speed humps .
BMW - Big Money Waste that cam,if they can ever get the glitch's out and what is the cost of this new cam ??? Any one know ?

[leilanidude]

what is the cost of this new cam ??? Any one know ?

It isn't "big money". A couple hundred dollars for the low resolution camera and a few hundred more to hook it up to the existing fiber line that runs down the side of the highway.

I just hope that traffic division figures out that allowing a single vehicle on Milo should not immediately trigger a red light on the main highway, just so that a single vehicle doesn't have to wait more than 3 seconds.

[kalakoa]

the existing fiber line that runs down the side of the highway.

Which can only be used for traffic control, while everyone else gets slow/expensive satellite or 4G internet. Yay for public infrastructure investment.

[justthefacts]

I have noticed traffic increase in the mornings already and just think schools are out for break right now . I can imagine when everyone is back on the road again what a huge back up its going to be. once reaching the main highway wont be much of a reprieve as the traffic is equally backed up heading to hilo. this all falls on the fact that the infrastructure has not kept up with development . and I see things only getting worse in the future.

[kalakoa]

infrastructure has not kept up with development

By design, apparently.

[Tink]

You forgot to add in the labor to install it, the personnel that accepted bids, reviewed, and appointed, as well as all the people involved with the traffic studies, etc. plus miscellaneous costs. For a simple task they spread it out to at least 5 different departments to share the wealth.
You and I would just pick a good spot, buy the camera, and splice it in. Pau.
Wait until technology catches up and they start putting in intersection cameras on the main routes to enforce "red light runners". If you even cross over the crosswalk line on a redlight, bam!, you get a ticket in the mail with a nice framable picture of you and your vehicle over the line! Photo enforced, is what they call it. Even have mobile "speed traps" that they set on the side of the road to photo you and clock how fast over the limit you were going, same end result.
Haven't noticed them on the island yet, but follow the rules the best I can ( ) and haven't bothered to look too hard for them.

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