12-27-2013, 02:58 PM
Take a look at all the people commenting on this topic, this isn’t a back road in one of the several unpaved subdivisions throughout Puna, comparing it as such is ludicrous. Old Government Beach Road is currently used as an arterial linking the shoreline Communities and its rapid deterioration between County maintenance re-grades clearly demonstrates this heavy usage. Yes, the County has adopted the road into its maintenance schedule (how effective that is, that's a different topic altogether), so it's clearly not just another road in limbo regardless of what a dusty document may state.
Inevitably Old Government Beach Road will be fully adopted (paved) by the County, just as it’s adopted and used by the community - a main arterial connector extending Highway 137 linking the lower shoreline communities. Yes, that means paving.
Effective community infrastructure is the bottom line and will prevail sooner than later regarding Old Government Beach Road.
If anyone would like to pull up a map of the Puna areas shoreline communities and take a look at the roadways and separate themselves from personal opinions and temporarily adopt a rational puzzle solving mindset, they would quickly realize exactly what will happen with Old Government Beach Road. It’s a no brainer.
A rational mind that was seeking to live off the beaten path, would select a road that wasn’t a connector between communities. They would select a place at the end of a dead end road far beyond and not between community interest and needs. So as I read some of these comedic oppositions with regard to improvement, I wonder if they took the time to apply their rationale on a broader horizon if they would recognize the humor and hypocrisy in their positions.
Like it or not, Community needs will prevail and that community is far broader than Waa Waa and its immediate neighboring communities. Paving is what happens when you select and move into a connector community, that's the way it always has been and always will be.
Old Government Beach Road belongs to the People of the County of Hawaii and is exactly what it has been for several hundred years, a “main road”. That's something everyone here should know well and it should also be a key indicator as to its future use also. I'd bet anyone that had the King of Hawaii had pavement in his days, "Old Government Beach Road"/THE KINGS ROAD would have been one of the very first roads paved on this island. BTW - Don't try to sell me a bill of goods that it is now as it was then historical crapola with regard to position and width, etc. (it's already long since changed). It’s as clear as the existing line between Point A and Point B. Until humans adopt the ability to travel through worm holes, we’ll continue to adopt the shortest, easiest and most cost effective distance between two points… think about it. Expecting something else is simply absurd.
- Armed citizens provide security of a free State.
Inevitably Old Government Beach Road will be fully adopted (paved) by the County, just as it’s adopted and used by the community - a main arterial connector extending Highway 137 linking the lower shoreline communities. Yes, that means paving.
Effective community infrastructure is the bottom line and will prevail sooner than later regarding Old Government Beach Road.
If anyone would like to pull up a map of the Puna areas shoreline communities and take a look at the roadways and separate themselves from personal opinions and temporarily adopt a rational puzzle solving mindset, they would quickly realize exactly what will happen with Old Government Beach Road. It’s a no brainer.
A rational mind that was seeking to live off the beaten path, would select a road that wasn’t a connector between communities. They would select a place at the end of a dead end road far beyond and not between community interest and needs. So as I read some of these comedic oppositions with regard to improvement, I wonder if they took the time to apply their rationale on a broader horizon if they would recognize the humor and hypocrisy in their positions.
Like it or not, Community needs will prevail and that community is far broader than Waa Waa and its immediate neighboring communities. Paving is what happens when you select and move into a connector community, that's the way it always has been and always will be.
Old Government Beach Road belongs to the People of the County of Hawaii and is exactly what it has been for several hundred years, a “main road”. That's something everyone here should know well and it should also be a key indicator as to its future use also. I'd bet anyone that had the King of Hawaii had pavement in his days, "Old Government Beach Road"/THE KINGS ROAD would have been one of the very first roads paved on this island. BTW - Don't try to sell me a bill of goods that it is now as it was then historical crapola with regard to position and width, etc. (it's already long since changed). It’s as clear as the existing line between Point A and Point B. Until humans adopt the ability to travel through worm holes, we’ll continue to adopt the shortest, easiest and most cost effective distance between two points… think about it. Expecting something else is simply absurd.
- Armed citizens provide security of a free State.