08-07-2012, 06:11 PM
Rob,
I understand where you're coming from but just this evening saw many near-accidents caused by people slowing down on 11, just after the merge with Kilauea Av and thought I'd just arrived after someone caused chaos at the merge. It wasn't, the slowdown was where a bunch of sign wavers where just a little further down at an intersection. A place I saw the aftermath of an accident just a couple of weeks ago. But it caused a slowdown at the merge and you know many people here do not know how to handle merging onto the highway safely so it added to the chaos.
In my opinion this particular candidate's choice of where to sign wave was dangerous. I don't know who it was, I was busy trying to make sure I was driving safely and looking out for those that were either waving back or surprised by cars suddenly slowing down in front of them. In both lanes. The Keaau bottleneck is the same. Everyone might be driving slowly but a driver or two waving back to those sign wavers who are *deliberately* distracting drivers cause a huge backup.
It'd be easy to say don't vote for them, but then they wouldn't know why certain people wouldn't vote for them. Maybe someone should sign wave a few hundred yards ahead of them and tell everyone "watch out for sign-waving distractions" but of course that isn't going to work either.
Two years ago I remember being so pissed off with Emily's group at the bottleneck but then saw Weatherford there as well. Well, that's two people I wouldn't vote for. I only noticed them because I was stuck in that traffic jam for so long I had nothing else to do but look at the scenery. That's why they chose that spot and that's what pisses me off even more.
Thus endeth my rant for tonight.
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/
I understand where you're coming from but just this evening saw many near-accidents caused by people slowing down on 11, just after the merge with Kilauea Av and thought I'd just arrived after someone caused chaos at the merge. It wasn't, the slowdown was where a bunch of sign wavers where just a little further down at an intersection. A place I saw the aftermath of an accident just a couple of weeks ago. But it caused a slowdown at the merge and you know many people here do not know how to handle merging onto the highway safely so it added to the chaos.
In my opinion this particular candidate's choice of where to sign wave was dangerous. I don't know who it was, I was busy trying to make sure I was driving safely and looking out for those that were either waving back or surprised by cars suddenly slowing down in front of them. In both lanes. The Keaau bottleneck is the same. Everyone might be driving slowly but a driver or two waving back to those sign wavers who are *deliberately* distracting drivers cause a huge backup.
It'd be easy to say don't vote for them, but then they wouldn't know why certain people wouldn't vote for them. Maybe someone should sign wave a few hundred yards ahead of them and tell everyone "watch out for sign-waving distractions" but of course that isn't going to work either.
Two years ago I remember being so pissed off with Emily's group at the bottleneck but then saw Weatherford there as well. Well, that's two people I wouldn't vote for. I only noticed them because I was stuck in that traffic jam for so long I had nothing else to do but look at the scenery. That's why they chose that spot and that's what pisses me off even more.
Thus endeth my rant for tonight.
Tom
http://apacificview.blogspot.com/