12-26-2013, 10:20 AM
This is pretty much hearsay on my part, but my understanding is that Wa'awa'a residents sided pretty strongly for no paving. A couple of years back when Roads in Limbo was actually a news topic the county chose two roads to upgrade: Government Road in Wa'awa'a and the unpaved portion of Ka'ohe Homesteads Road. Again only hearsay, but the Wa'awa'a residents were said to have pushed back hard enough against paving that the Homesteads road got two lanes on that unpaved section, instead of just an extension of the (still) one lane Ka'ohe Homestead/Cemetery road route between the Pahoa schools and the transfer station. The only support I have for this story is our complete astonishment that two lanes were paved instead of one. Not that we mind.