03-05-2011, 06:26 AM
The 'Humane Society-to-Shower Drive' section (STP 28) was scheduled to be in motion already. This project, in my observation, was shoved through to meet some ends. Some folks, when looking at what is proposed, state, "they're just moving the bottleneck". Many places in the FEA falsify information and to an extreme. There are errors in the arithmetic calculating costs. There many misrepresentations of information. These many problems have drawn some strong criticism and this has undoubtedly slowed it down. There are also some thorny issues with some (HPP lot owners) common ownership land at Shower Drive. The contract has not yet gone out to bid. For 2.3 miles, the latest estimate of the rising costs is $24 million, and that is with the second south bound (mauka) lane being a temporary like the second north bound (makai) lane is now. There has never been any public meeting on this plan.
The other project (STP 27), from Shower Drive to Highway 137 (signal at Pahoa school), is much bigger and scheduled for construction over an 8 year period. This project has a good deal more credibility. There was an extended public consultation process. While I could point to some less-than-great aspects of that process, it did happen, it was open, and the final recommendations reflect community-identified issues and none of that happened with STP 28.
The other project (STP 27), from Shower Drive to Highway 137 (signal at Pahoa school), is much bigger and scheduled for construction over an 8 year period. This project has a good deal more credibility. There was an extended public consultation process. While I could point to some less-than-great aspects of that process, it did happen, it was open, and the final recommendations reflect community-identified issues and none of that happened with STP 28.