06-22-2014, 04:37 AM
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Originally posted by Steve W
HA has not changed a bit in 25 years of me living here, if you expect to change it, I wish you luck,[] you never will, besides, if you all want change move to the city or somewhere else.,,
Maybe it's been too long since I lived in the acres but the roads have changed in the last 25 yrs - some for the better some for the worse.
Road 8 is now paved all the way to F and it used to be only to C. It was one lane paved to C back in 1994 when I worked at HACA. Potholes in that slim one lane. Back then people worked on their roads themselves in addition to what HACA did (it was one organization back then). 9 is now paved between F to Ainaloa. The connector is open without having to go through Augie's yard and payment of a $1 or a beer or a bud.
Going from 8 and E to 1 and E was a 30 min process of driving slow, stopping to chat for a moment with a neighbor coming down the hill, avoiding the bigger potholes. Always the decision if it was easier to go all the way out on 8 and come back in on So Kulani to 1 Rd. (Okay maybe this one is the same still but I was only on it from 8 to 4 last month.)
One of the things they did back then was have a "fix the road" day every few months and a lot of people where out working on their road, gravel coming to the bad spots, with 4-8 people found on quite a few roads smoothing it out in lots of places on the dirt roads.
So in the "again by comparison" category .... I now live on a paved road not in the acres but a private subdivision where the roads were paved 12+ yrs ago and now the Road association has added speed bumps in everywhere. Even going slow the speed bumps are hard on cars.
So do you deal with the devil you know (unpaved roads) or deal in the future with the devil you dont know yet (speeding, and speed bumps!)
My pollyanna suggestions is to work together and fix roads. Find someone up there who would donated time with equipment for the fix a road day. Although on E road we all just did it with shovels scraping the gravel back onto the road.
And above all - drive slow. It keeps the roads better longer and less car damage.