12-10-2015, 07:09 AM
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Originally posted by HereOnThePrimalEdge
opening RR to Maku'u will just move the current Kahakai traffic jam down the road 3.75 miles ...and add it to another traffic nightmare.
Wouldn't the total amount of traffic on Highway 130 after Shower Drive be the same whether drivers used Highway 130 from lower Puna, or Railroad? If some of the drivers used Railroad, there would be that much less traffic on Hwy 130 between Pahoa and Shower Drive, making it easier to enter the highway at Maku'u, Paradise, Kaloli, and Shower.
It would be the same number of cars, entering the highway at multiple locations.
The issue is getting out of HPP, once on the highway at Shower it is smooth sailing until the outskirts of Hilo when the highway turns back into a parking lot.
Cars join the line of traffic on Shower from multiple numbered streets, so one car moves forward and one new car moves into the line of cars, this repeats at each street between 22nd and 28th, with cars backed up on those side streets and all the way down Shower. No one I know who lives in HPP tries to turn onto the highway from HPP anywhere other than Shower in the morning, it has the only designated lane for turning onto from HPP, and it is virtually impossible to get on the highway from the other main roads. One left turning car from Shower can stop all movement onto the highway for as long as 15 minutes while they wait for a break in traffic so they can turn.