Hwy 130 speed limit drop

[hotinhawaii]

One may imagine that lowering a speed limit by 10 mph would decrease accidents but it's not necessarily the case. Here is the DOT's own study on this: http://www.ibiblio.org/rdu/sl-irrel.html

One thing is clear, it will mean "fewer cars by a given point in a measured unit of time." In other words, even more congestion at all hours of the day and an increase in drive time to and from Hilo.

I realize that the hwy. 130 expansion will mean innumerable headaches for a lot of years (if it ever starts) but, until then, can Russell Ruderman please not make it worse?