07-08-2016, 05:19 AM
In the meantime, during the 20-40 years it takes to make that happen, thousands of people spend an extra hour or two a day stuck in traffic. Not everyone making that commute works in "service jobs" either, many of the people I know who commute to Hilo for work have decent family wage jobs, just not high enough paying jobs to spend $300,000 on a house in Hilo.