08-29-2014, 03:54 PM
I very rarely go to the "other places do it better mode," and actually my post was a comment on how little our Public Works gets accomplished compared to what can be done, but without suggesting anything radical like importing efficient workers.
snorkle, I don't know how often you drive through Pa'auilo, living to the south, but those of us who drove through there regularly from 2006 on were amazed at how there was always work there but not so much progress.
It was hard no to feel that the project existed to give job security to the road workers. I've also been told that HELCO keeps the tree trimming companies steadily employed by contracting them to trim a puka for the wires to run though instead of actually dealing with the tree problem in a way that will last.
OK as long as life goes on at the normal slow pace, but when something big happens, and all you have to go to work on it is people who are used to walking just fast enough to stay in one place and a little bit more, you're in trouble.
Kathy
snorkle, I don't know how often you drive through Pa'auilo, living to the south, but those of us who drove through there regularly from 2006 on were amazed at how there was always work there but not so much progress.
It was hard no to feel that the project existed to give job security to the road workers. I've also been told that HELCO keeps the tree trimming companies steadily employed by contracting them to trim a puka for the wires to run though instead of actually dealing with the tree problem in a way that will last.
OK as long as life goes on at the normal slow pace, but when something big happens, and all you have to go to work on it is people who are used to walking just fast enough to stay in one place and a little bit more, you're in trouble.
Kathy