05-15-2014, 08:14 AM
This was provided by HDOT:
Federal resource commitment for a road to connect Puna to Hilo may be restricted to what is dedicated to State Route 130, as the Federal Department of Transportation policy is for their participation in providing ‘point-to-point’ infrastructure to be limited.
Two roads in Kona have already proven this out -- Fed $ used in one and not the other, since they are parallel and serve the same populations on both ends.
And, when the $1.5million proposal was in Honolulu, the HDOT refused to recommend it to the Governor.