11-06-2011, 10:24 AM
@ Rob, Apparently they chose to go with a professional asphalt company.
They are fancy! There is white paint splashed on a couple that looks like a giant bird pooped on them. Right next some of the humps are huge boulders lined up along the side the road. It is sort of like a kind of 'go cart' obstacle course where you start your course at Honolulu Landing, follow the big white lines that are like those lines you see that are huge in the foreground but are smallest in the back ground and light up alternately to let you know you are arriving upon a difference in the road surface? Then the hump...the big splat of paint on top...then driving a little while and the next set of white warning lines and just to the right a long line of huge raw boulders are placed just off the road shoulder. They aren't cleaned up; they aren't painted green or white or yellow or any sort of warning colors; then you arrive at the last hump. I haven't been down to see the 'new signs' or the alternate course some of the cars are taking over the grassy portion of the road shoulder. I guess go carts are better than bumper cars...
@Pog, you should have been at the meetings! I am sure that would have been far less expensive for the residents on the street that wanted the humps.
The price is not relevant because the 'residents' paid for it. The traffic studies; the limited choice of contact [residents vs. owners] for approval; the permission for 'residents' to alter a private community own road...the change in environment for a much bigger group of 'residents' on all side roads connecting Papio to Puna Coastal and Puna Coastal road itself and the rest of the 'detrimental' items noted in the ITE data contained in the 'proposed' policy already implemented that speak tot he concerns of those who do not favor. On Papio, perhaps they wonder why so many people are so concerned about what they did on their road. It is a natural response. They did not do it in secret. They did it over several committee and board meetings. Like all things, it is like tossing a rock in a pool of water and the results of that impact are felt farther out than just your side of the pool. If they owned every place those ripples would touch then surely they could toss the rock. But they don't. They don't even own the pool [analogous] .. it is own by all Members.
I am not bound to please thee with my answer. -- William Shakespeare
They are fancy! There is white paint splashed on a couple that looks like a giant bird pooped on them. Right next some of the humps are huge boulders lined up along the side the road. It is sort of like a kind of 'go cart' obstacle course where you start your course at Honolulu Landing, follow the big white lines that are like those lines you see that are huge in the foreground but are smallest in the back ground and light up alternately to let you know you are arriving upon a difference in the road surface? Then the hump...the big splat of paint on top...then driving a little while and the next set of white warning lines and just to the right a long line of huge raw boulders are placed just off the road shoulder. They aren't cleaned up; they aren't painted green or white or yellow or any sort of warning colors; then you arrive at the last hump. I haven't been down to see the 'new signs' or the alternate course some of the cars are taking over the grassy portion of the road shoulder. I guess go carts are better than bumper cars...
@Pog, you should have been at the meetings! I am sure that would have been far less expensive for the residents on the street that wanted the humps.
The price is not relevant because the 'residents' paid for it. The traffic studies; the limited choice of contact [residents vs. owners] for approval; the permission for 'residents' to alter a private community own road...the change in environment for a much bigger group of 'residents' on all side roads connecting Papio to Puna Coastal and Puna Coastal road itself and the rest of the 'detrimental' items noted in the ITE data contained in the 'proposed' policy already implemented that speak tot he concerns of those who do not favor. On Papio, perhaps they wonder why so many people are so concerned about what they did on their road. It is a natural response. They did not do it in secret. They did it over several committee and board meetings. Like all things, it is like tossing a rock in a pool of water and the results of that impact are felt farther out than just your side of the pool. If they owned every place those ripples would touch then surely they could toss the rock. But they don't. They don't even own the pool [analogous] .. it is own by all Members.
I am not bound to please thee with my answer. -- William Shakespeare
"Q might have done the right thing for the wrong reason, perhaps we need a good kick in our complacency to get us ready for what's ahead" -- Captain Picard, to Guinan (Q Who?)