08-26-2014, 05:29 AM
FWIW, if and when they repave the lava covered Chain of Craters Road from Kaimu/Kalapana to the Ka Lae Apuki area of the HVNP coast.
that would make a trip to Hilo about 65-70 miles from Kalapana... and NO you cant drive 55 the whole way so my guess is it would be 1.5 hours each way minimum (w/o Kurtistown to Hilo commute hours traffic jams)....!!
...and what about (everyone?) needing a HVNP season pass (about $25) to get back into the park gate to go home????? and is HVNP gate entrance set up to handle, on top of tourists/park visitors, that much more traffic (ie thousands of cutoff lower Puna residents), and can hwy 11 from HVNP to Keaau handle these (extra) lower Puna residents to go with all the upper Puna daily drivers???
PS there are no gas stations in lower Puna or almost all of HVNP (Military Camp has a small hidden station), so if say, you live in Kapoho you will have a trip of about 80-85 miles each way (2 hours ea. way), with NO gas stations for about the first and last 50 miles of a roundtrip to Hilo. (Volcano Village also has a couple)
IMO better to grade and cinder a temp road from Gov Road area of WaaWaa to say Kaloli in HPP or better yet all the way to somewhere near Shipman Beach/Mauna Loa MacNut factory area
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
that would make a trip to Hilo about 65-70 miles from Kalapana... and NO you cant drive 55 the whole way so my guess is it would be 1.5 hours each way minimum (w/o Kurtistown to Hilo commute hours traffic jams)....!!
...and what about (everyone?) needing a HVNP season pass (about $25) to get back into the park gate to go home????? and is HVNP gate entrance set up to handle, on top of tourists/park visitors, that much more traffic (ie thousands of cutoff lower Puna residents), and can hwy 11 from HVNP to Keaau handle these (extra) lower Puna residents to go with all the upper Puna daily drivers???
PS there are no gas stations in lower Puna or almost all of HVNP (Military Camp has a small hidden station), so if say, you live in Kapoho you will have a trip of about 80-85 miles each way (2 hours ea. way), with NO gas stations for about the first and last 50 miles of a roundtrip to Hilo. (Volcano Village also has a couple)
IMO better to grade and cinder a temp road from Gov Road area of WaaWaa to say Kaloli in HPP or better yet all the way to somewhere near Shipman Beach/Mauna Loa MacNut factory area
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
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save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha
save our indigenous and endemic Hawaiian Plants... learn about them, grow them, and plant them on your property, ....instead of all that invasive non-native garbage I see in most yards... aloha