TMT Work to Resume Says Ige!

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Amazing how much more traffic goes to the summit daily, weekly, or monthly. For every hundred observatory workers who travel to the top of Maunakea, their is another thousand tourists or more who also visit the summit. If 300,000 tourists visit the summit a year now, how many more can we expect once this controversial TMT project is complete, or another couple hundred employees are at work for the tmt? 20% of the vehicles going up daily are from observatory employees who usually drive up alone. While many tourists drive up in rental cars or jam packed high costing vans that seat more than a dozen. Jmo here, I believe 90% of all who visit the summit these days are tourists. So Who takes care of the now highly used public road to the summit, and how much does it really cost to keep up?

With so much added traffic going up and down the mountain daily, could some local folks open up a couple of food or fruit stands along this highly used public road? Maybe a nice locally owned restaurant(fine dining)could replace an unused or out dated observatory atop Maunakea, or be squeezed in the very roomy TMT? The state of hawaii must know such a project like the Tmt will be attracting hundreds of thousands of new additional tourists to the summit yearly. Could local food trucks be allowed to the visitor center in the future, or will these types of local businesses be frowned on? I guess what I want to know, Is Maunakea's summit open only for observatory scientists and state operated tourism, or can local businesses be entertained as well in the growing future of exploiting Maunakea and its rich history?.