01-04-2009, 08:15 AM
After last week’s rain-out, my wife and I were looking forward to our trip to Maku’u market today. We don’t always go at the same time, but our “guiding principle” is to get there before all the bananas are gone (we’re simple folk :-) Well, today we must’ve arrived at the peak of rush-hour.
A sincere question[?]: Can someone help me understand the logic of directing arriving cars to wind all the way around the market in a big loop, only to bring you back to the lot you originally came in--unless you find a spot along the way, which is not where you want to park, because it’s so hard to get out when you leave because of the traffic jam behind you...
Why is there a traffic jam? One reason is because they’ve now blocked off the back exit, which consequently forces departing cars to come back onto the highway, many of which (yours truly included) want to go left. But going left is particularly difficult because of all the cars from HPP direction lined up to make a left into the market.
So on our way out, we decide to "take one for the team", you know, get out the quickest way to keep traffic flowing around the market. So RIGHT we go. Our plan is to turn around at Ainaloa and come back, no biggie. But wait. Lots of other "want-to-turn-left-but-can't" brethren are doing the same thing. So now we’ve got a mini traffic jam on Ainaloa blvd!
Then onto another mini-traffic jam going back to Pahoa because the cars trying to turn left into the market exceed the space allocated in the left turn lane, while the rest of us schmucks squeeze past on our way back to "sweet home" Pahoa.
If I didn’t know better, I’d think the aunties at the market were punkin’ us :-)
The beauty of it all is that we live in Hawaii, so it’s much more amusing than frustrating.
We left Maku’u with lots of delicious bananas [:p]
Tim
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A sincere question[?]: Can someone help me understand the logic of directing arriving cars to wind all the way around the market in a big loop, only to bring you back to the lot you originally came in--unless you find a spot along the way, which is not where you want to park, because it’s so hard to get out when you leave because of the traffic jam behind you...
Why is there a traffic jam? One reason is because they’ve now blocked off the back exit, which consequently forces departing cars to come back onto the highway, many of which (yours truly included) want to go left. But going left is particularly difficult because of all the cars from HPP direction lined up to make a left into the market.
So on our way out, we decide to "take one for the team", you know, get out the quickest way to keep traffic flowing around the market. So RIGHT we go. Our plan is to turn around at Ainaloa and come back, no biggie. But wait. Lots of other "want-to-turn-left-but-can't" brethren are doing the same thing. So now we’ve got a mini traffic jam on Ainaloa blvd!
Then onto another mini-traffic jam going back to Pahoa because the cars trying to turn left into the market exceed the space allocated in the left turn lane, while the rest of us schmucks squeeze past on our way back to "sweet home" Pahoa.
If I didn’t know better, I’d think the aunties at the market were punkin’ us :-)
The beauty of it all is that we live in Hawaii, so it’s much more amusing than frustrating.
We left Maku’u with lots of delicious bananas [:p]
Tim
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Tim
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions--Confucius
A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions--Confucius
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