10-29-2011, 02:37 AM
@CSGray, thanks for the sage. Sadly, there is a clear chasm within the community. There are people who hold on to such vehemence that no matter what someone says or does it is never seen or appreciated from the standpoint of that person's sacrifice of time. Someone sniping from the sidelines -- here or elsewhere at those who do sacrifice -- while they themselves are not 'active' in making a difference in the community basically undermine any veracity their 'words' may have imparted.
I stopped by this topic because traffic safety has been a part of our lives since the early 70's when my spouse began working in the field of traffic safety. My posts here and on Big Island Chronicle through the years have been fairly consistent in traffic safety. I am an owner here in this community and everything anyone does on/to the roads has a tether to our investment here whether it is done on the first street across from the ocean or on the first street across from the stables. I so agree with afwjam and am looking forward to seeing how he works out this particular issue. As I said in one my earlier comments here what happens on a local level regarding traffic safety is a microcosm of the attitudes on display by the County and State. For the record, I know only a couple of people who have shared their thoughts on this topic. I have finally guessed who the one character is by his effusive opinions about things and people of the past. I personally don't care who anyone is because everyone brings something to the discussion even if it is a statement to build a finer detailed discussion. The more someone shares the more we all get to know one another.
@afwjam: Big diesel trucks, really? Conjures up many movie scenes....that is a lot of wear and tear on our private roads. Has anyone looked at the business name on the trucks? It might be worth it to see if a call to the company, given there is one company, to advise them their trucks are driving through private residential roads. We had a couple of members complain a few years back about a company using our streets to do their drivers training. The Board wrote them a letter and asked them to find another place to train as this was a private subdivision with private roads. They complied.
Finally this, I don't know how the bigger firetrucks even manage the road from Honolulu Landing through Waa Waa -- but now the ambulance and fire equipment will likely make the same detour down Puna Coastal and Kuna streets to get there. Feel badly for the folks on those two streets but it has to be slow going once you hit the road to Waa Waa and Puna Coastal currently has no speed bumps. As I said in an earlier comment, living like a hermit sometimes is inviting until your life depends on emergency care. When you listen to the police scanner and the difficulties some of these subdivisions have when there is an emergency it is amazing more people do not die. The dispatcher patiently takes and gives details to the responding crews down to the kind of plants on the property with the emergency. I should think an appreciation dinner from the communities these folks serve for their patient tedium in saving lives and limbs would be a worthwhile endeavor. Just an unrelated random thought.
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I stopped by this topic because traffic safety has been a part of our lives since the early 70's when my spouse began working in the field of traffic safety. My posts here and on Big Island Chronicle through the years have been fairly consistent in traffic safety. I am an owner here in this community and everything anyone does on/to the roads has a tether to our investment here whether it is done on the first street across from the ocean or on the first street across from the stables. I so agree with afwjam and am looking forward to seeing how he works out this particular issue. As I said in one my earlier comments here what happens on a local level regarding traffic safety is a microcosm of the attitudes on display by the County and State. For the record, I know only a couple of people who have shared their thoughts on this topic. I have finally guessed who the one character is by his effusive opinions about things and people of the past. I personally don't care who anyone is because everyone brings something to the discussion even if it is a statement to build a finer detailed discussion. The more someone shares the more we all get to know one another.
@afwjam: Big diesel trucks, really? Conjures up many movie scenes....that is a lot of wear and tear on our private roads. Has anyone looked at the business name on the trucks? It might be worth it to see if a call to the company, given there is one company, to advise them their trucks are driving through private residential roads. We had a couple of members complain a few years back about a company using our streets to do their drivers training. The Board wrote them a letter and asked them to find another place to train as this was a private subdivision with private roads. They complied.
Finally this, I don't know how the bigger firetrucks even manage the road from Honolulu Landing through Waa Waa -- but now the ambulance and fire equipment will likely make the same detour down Puna Coastal and Kuna streets to get there. Feel badly for the folks on those two streets but it has to be slow going once you hit the road to Waa Waa and Puna Coastal currently has no speed bumps. As I said in an earlier comment, living like a hermit sometimes is inviting until your life depends on emergency care. When you listen to the police scanner and the difficulties some of these subdivisions have when there is an emergency it is amazing more people do not die. The dispatcher patiently takes and gives details to the responding crews down to the kind of plants on the property with the emergency. I should think an appreciation dinner from the communities these folks serve for their patient tedium in saving lives and limbs would be a worthwhile endeavor. Just an unrelated random thought.
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