A new road through Paradise Park (??)

[Carey]

An interesting thing happened in light of this forum discussion. I was riding the big yellow HeleOn bus this morning, and a couple was talking to the normal route driver about how to change the HeleOn bus service to further assist the residents of Puna. Our driver has an interesting perspective & idea on how to do this. Use the larger capacity buses to run fairly constant round the island routes (with buses going both clock wise & counterclockwise around). The smaller buses would run as feeder buses to central stations along the circular routes. One of the this he noted is that the lower Puna route is the only one on island that runs from morning till night (6am until 10pm), and has the most round trips. So we are lucky to be in Puna, where the tax money is benefitting those that use the transit system. One thing to remember is that a transit bus full of passengers is the same as about 40 or more cars. The more buses on the road also equals alot fewer cars.
Rob, at the Shipman developement meeting this summer, There was a question on whether there was to be open access to Railroad, that seemed to be turned down by the presenters, plus their developement plan for the land had NO access route bisecting their property from HPP to Hilo (this would kinda ruin some of their developement plans). Do you know if this has been discussed with them since this summer?
Aloha, Carey