Alternate makai access road?

[Chunkster]

There is no money for this. The last I heard the price for a makai route was way over $200,000,000. There is organized opposition in HPP. (I know about this because I went to one of the meetings.) There is no provision for it in the State Highway plan except as "a county project," which brings us back to no money. In the event of the most likely emergency, a lava flow, a gravel emergency exit could be bulldozed in plenty of time for a small fraction of the cost.