Honk if you don't like the Shores speed bumps

[Guest]

Now for those of you suggesting the speed bumps aren't such a big deal, and that we should just pay thousands of dollars to have them installed on Coastal puna.... Why should anyone who is a normal driver be slowed down at all? Why give up any of our liberties? I enjoy driving 30 MPH down the road, it was not a problem before. First you need to establish there is a problem before you make a dramatic sacrifice like speed bumps. The bumps look horrible, paint allover the road, signs everywhere. They make the traffic twice as loud, and many times more inefficient. An average car driving 30 MPH is getting around 50 MPG and emitting very few emissions, the speed bumps bring that average down into the teens for MPG and increase emissions significantly. For a big truck you would not believe the **** they are spewing accelerating from each bump, not to mention massive amounts of noise. Coastal puna certainly did not have a traffic problem, it does now, so does every street leading from Papio before each and every bump.

First establish there is a problem(there isnt) and if there is find a way to influence the traffic without fighting and punishing it.(trees by the side of the road)

Overall this is a philosophical issue, people think they can control everything, they can't. Work with nature, don't fight it. Living with aloha means you aren't trying to control everything around you, you embrace nature for what it is, good and bad. Forgive the bad and revel in the good. Trying to control things only leads to more problems down the road....(PUN intended)