05-18-2016, 09:13 AM
Yesterday's installment of "Tales of the Roundabout." Chapter 1:
Driving behind a woman driving into the roundabout from Kalapana, I saw her begin the slow to a crawl indicating that something untoward was about to take place. I interrupted my driver so we could observe. I was willing to bet she would come to a complete stop at the least. She didn't disappoint! Not only did she put on her left turn signal before entering the roundabout, she came to a complete stop then turned left into traffic. I don't know if laying on our horn made any difference, but she continued turning and exited bound toward Kalapana. I guess she will try again some other day.
Chapter 2: on the way back from Hilo after exiting the roundabout we see a clever fellow trying to make his way back toward Keaau. He was coming from the section of Kahakai BLvd. with the stores on it. You may know you can't turn left onto 130 from there, but such rules and lane markings weren't for this guy. He came out in the turn lane into Kahakai and just bolted across the double yellow to head into the roundabout. I imagine what happened immediately prior to this. He probably came out of the marketplace and could t see a way to turn left to get to Keaau. He turned right and found he couldn't then turn into the roundabout at the stop sign so continued on thinking there might be a way from Kahakai. Nope again. So he just made a way. I salute his ingenuity.
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Driving behind a woman driving into the roundabout from Kalapana, I saw her begin the slow to a crawl indicating that something untoward was about to take place. I interrupted my driver so we could observe. I was willing to bet she would come to a complete stop at the least. She didn't disappoint! Not only did she put on her left turn signal before entering the roundabout, she came to a complete stop then turned left into traffic. I don't know if laying on our horn made any difference, but she continued turning and exited bound toward Kalapana. I guess she will try again some other day.
Chapter 2: on the way back from Hilo after exiting the roundabout we see a clever fellow trying to make his way back toward Keaau. He was coming from the section of Kahakai BLvd. with the stores on it. You may know you can't turn left onto 130 from there, but such rules and lane markings weren't for this guy. He came out in the turn lane into Kahakai and just bolted across the double yellow to head into the roundabout. I imagine what happened immediately prior to this. He probably came out of the marketplace and could t see a way to turn left to get to Keaau. He turned right and found he couldn't then turn into the roundabout at the stop sign so continued on thinking there might be a way from Kahakai. Nope again. So he just made a way. I salute his ingenuity.
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