Hour and a half from Hilo to HPP

[peteadams]

If the county was actually interested in solving impact of the bottleneck created by the Kea’au bypass itself, there’s a simple, well known traffic control method to accomplish that: block the side roads and keep the traffic lights green through the bypass. HCPD could deploy reserve officers in mid-afternoon to barricade the old Kea’au-Pahoa road and Kukula St. at their intersections with the Kea’au bypass and prevent left turns out of Milo. Signs would be placed each day up the hill, perhaps by the MacDonald’s intersection and also on Milo, to warn drivers heading south on the side roads to approach the bypass from Highway 11. This would not mitigate the problems created by the construction, but would solve the every day problems created by the intersections and traffic lights on the bypass. In the misty future when Hwy 130 is built out perhaps this would not be necessary.