12-27-2013, 10:11 AM
The "access to emergency services" rhetoric applies to large sections of Puna; even those places with nicely paved access are many many many miles from the hospital.
People have been complaining about the roads for over 50 years. What have our elected officials done about it? Simple: they created various flavors of interesting legal fiction ("Road in Limbo", "privately-owned public road", etc) that redefine the issue into "not our responsibility sorry too bad for you".
If you really want/need access to services, move to where those services are, because "they" aren't going to pave the roads in your lifetime.
People have been complaining about the roads for over 50 years. What have our elected officials done about it? Simple: they created various flavors of interesting legal fiction ("Road in Limbo", "privately-owned public road", etc) that redefine the issue into "not our responsibility sorry too bad for you".
If you really want/need access to services, move to where those services are, because "they" aren't going to pave the roads in your lifetime.