A new road through Paradise Park (??)

[lizr]

Iam not an HPP resident, though I have lived there in the past and liked it very much and have a number of friends there.

it has always seemed to me a better idea to make the village concept work and avoid the four laning of 130 as long as possible. Much if not most of the traffic going in to town appears to be from HPP in the rush hours. If there were banks, or at least ATMs, and a post office branch, and maybe a food store, it seems like many people could avoid 130.

The thing about 4 laning 130 is that it will facilitate more development, and we are having a hard enough time absorbing the growth we have right now. It is a challenge. The new folks are bringing lots of business savvy and new skill sets which are much needed in Puna/Pahoa, but the pace of change is overwhelming to many of the old timers.

I'd like to see Railroad become the bike and walking path, and slow road into Hilo. like 25 mph speed limits. that would give us an alternative route, without destroying (hopefully ) the quality of life for those who live there now.

I'd also like to see many of the new people start to relate to their community which has a lot of needs, like basic literacy (HIGH rate of illiteracy here!) and life skill training. I know there are many retired people here now who have a lot to share!

Wish I had the time to organize somethign along these lines.. any takers?

da kine-

Liz Randol ®
Realty Executives Hawaii Brokers Inc. Hilo
www.liz-randol.com
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