04-11-2019, 05:33 AM
Pardon my typo: contingent...mass... large group of environmentalists. My bad.
I posted extensively on this topic, twice, I recall, so periodically I throw in a plug for it. If you cross the street at Farmers Market to the bus station/Mooheau Bandstand, you'll see the 1/2 mile long fence blocking access to sea.
Want to go by the ocean, recreate on the Bayfront Berm? You're supposed to drive there.
Bayfront Highway used to run all the way past Hilo Bayfront Park where the canoe paddlers operate. About 20 years ago the County did a good thing and closed that section off. That roadway is now a defacto parking lot.
But one original plan called for a larger section to be closed down. This would have been done by curving Bayfront Highway inland as soon as it passes the Mooheau Bandstand when you are driving south. It would connect with Ponahawai St., or thereabouts. That would create a large new coastal park area, with a pedestrian crossing to the ocean by the bandstand.
At present Bayfront Highway operates as a fairly high speed fenced off roadway built on top of a beach directly across from a downtown. How many other coastal towns in America have such a thing? Would tolerate such a thing?
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For those particularly interested, the text from 2005 County General Plan, p.13-9.
(i) Plan for the eventual closure of the Bayfront Highway and the relocation of the existing Highway 19-Pauahi Street intersection to an area in the vicinity of Pona- hawai Street, in coordination with the State.
http://hidot.hawaii.gov/harbors/files/20...eneral.pdf
A possible project; it has been repeated in the Plan for decades.
I posted extensively on this topic, twice, I recall, so periodically I throw in a plug for it. If you cross the street at Farmers Market to the bus station/Mooheau Bandstand, you'll see the 1/2 mile long fence blocking access to sea.
Want to go by the ocean, recreate on the Bayfront Berm? You're supposed to drive there.
Bayfront Highway used to run all the way past Hilo Bayfront Park where the canoe paddlers operate. About 20 years ago the County did a good thing and closed that section off. That roadway is now a defacto parking lot.
But one original plan called for a larger section to be closed down. This would have been done by curving Bayfront Highway inland as soon as it passes the Mooheau Bandstand when you are driving south. It would connect with Ponahawai St., or thereabouts. That would create a large new coastal park area, with a pedestrian crossing to the ocean by the bandstand.
At present Bayfront Highway operates as a fairly high speed fenced off roadway built on top of a beach directly across from a downtown. How many other coastal towns in America have such a thing? Would tolerate such a thing?
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For those particularly interested, the text from 2005 County General Plan, p.13-9.
(i) Plan for the eventual closure of the Bayfront Highway and the relocation of the existing Highway 19-Pauahi Street intersection to an area in the vicinity of Pona- hawai Street, in coordination with the State.
http://hidot.hawaii.gov/harbors/files/20...eneral.pdf
A possible project; it has been repeated in the Plan for decades.