03-19-2017, 05:15 AM
The DOT's mantra in this situation is that they want to finish the widening of Highway 130 before they begin any new routes into Puna. An alternate route is not currently on the DOT's master plan, and they control the money. Add the fact that there is a moratorium on capacity increase projects at this time, and O'Hara should have known that the new road was going nowhere. (The moratorium is punishment by Ige and the DOT bureaucrats for the failure of some road tax increases last year.) I see the resolution as being political posturing for O'Hara to placate some key campaign supporters rather than any real hope of actually starting anything. Anyone for some more tilting at windmills?