10-18-2013, 05:56 AM
Here is why I don't think moving the bottleneck to Shower Dr will make much difference.
If there is a stop light at Shower Dr. just the fact that traffic intermittently comes to a complete halt there will create the same backup problems we now have. If it's true 3 sign wavers can slow things down, think about what a complete stop every 2 minutes will do.
If there is no stop light at Shower Dr, the left lane turning onto Shower Dr will back up while cars wait to turn left into Paradise Park due to oncoming traffic from Pahoa direction. Even if many HPP residents decide to turn here, they will have to wait, wait, wait, then travel down 28th street, where traffic will also back up at the stop signs at Kaloli, Paradise, and Maku'u. Some may fan out to other streets, but in the end, everyone will end up at a stop sign waiting to turn left. If the left turn lane on the highway at Shower Dr backs up too much due to these factors, drivers will choose to merge into the right lane, and we're back to the same bottleneck we now have.
As kalakoa points out, we're lucky they're moving the bottleneck to Shower Dr. When the extra lane is finally extended to Maku'u drive it will then make a huge difference in the traffic problem, so no sense complaining about it. In the long run, it will solve the problem.
If there is a stop light at Shower Dr. just the fact that traffic intermittently comes to a complete halt there will create the same backup problems we now have. If it's true 3 sign wavers can slow things down, think about what a complete stop every 2 minutes will do.
If there is no stop light at Shower Dr, the left lane turning onto Shower Dr will back up while cars wait to turn left into Paradise Park due to oncoming traffic from Pahoa direction. Even if many HPP residents decide to turn here, they will have to wait, wait, wait, then travel down 28th street, where traffic will also back up at the stop signs at Kaloli, Paradise, and Maku'u. Some may fan out to other streets, but in the end, everyone will end up at a stop sign waiting to turn left. If the left turn lane on the highway at Shower Dr backs up too much due to these factors, drivers will choose to merge into the right lane, and we're back to the same bottleneck we now have.
As kalakoa points out, we're lucky they're moving the bottleneck to Shower Dr. When the extra lane is finally extended to Maku'u drive it will then make a huge difference in the traffic problem, so no sense complaining about it. In the long run, it will solve the problem.
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