State warns HPP for dust violation

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In coastal parts of Mexico they put big marine ropes across the roads as speed bumps, tied from the base of one palm tree to another, might work here. HPP could drop the speed limit on the unpaved roads and raise it on the paved roads, although the reality is that if the drivers on unpaved roads went the current speed limit there would be much less dust. We live on a dead end stretch, and the dust kicked up by the elderly couple who drive the speed limit is minimal, while the speed racer in that bright yellow sports car from the end of the street kicks up a huge plume of dust. HPP cannot enforce the speed limit, and unless it enforced the dust will continue. Maybe the dust abatement plan could just state that "The county police will enforce current speed limits which are adequate to prevent dust issues." and leave the ball in their court.

As an aside, the road crew has been doing a really great job the last year or so, I live near their base at the Hui and they are always out early in the morning, and I never see them back at the yard before quitting time just waiting around for the day to end. Whoever is running the crew knows what they are doing. Mahalos!

Carol