04-28-2017, 10:51 AM
The state has made it very clear as recently as last month that no Puna alternate route would even be considered until the expansion of Highway 130 is complete. They said so in a letter to the county council when the council was lobbying to get $15 million released to start planning one. Since the state controls access to federal money, and there's no way the county will spend $200 million of its own money on Puna, I'd say it's dead for now.