11-03-2025, 06:56 PM
There's a report in today's HTH about the Highway 130 meeting which took place a week ago. (The HTH's motto should be "Yesterday's news tomorrrow . . . or maybe next week.") PMAR got prominent mention.
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/202...ed7a44b7e1
In case it's behind a paywall by now, I'll summarize a few points.
The state DOT is still not doing capacity expansion on 130 preferring to do flow improvements via roundabouts, signals, and contraflow. It was mentioned by the politicians that the Ainaloa roundabout was built too small and would have to be improved before anything else would work. How stupid was that?
As for PMAR, they mentioned that the study was getting underway, but the first public meetins are still "months away." Six routes are being considered, and although they didn't specifically mention it, at least some of those are mauka of 130 according to earlier reports. The cost will be at least $300 million, and "federal assistance will be essential." Greggor Ilagan grabbed the third rail of Hawaii politics and said that a route throuh Hawaiian Homelands should be considered. Yeah, right.
We all know that it will cost twice as much and take twice as long as whatever their study indicates. And this being Puna, there will be opposition to whatever is proposed.
https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/202...ed7a44b7e1
In case it's behind a paywall by now, I'll summarize a few points.
The state DOT is still not doing capacity expansion on 130 preferring to do flow improvements via roundabouts, signals, and contraflow. It was mentioned by the politicians that the Ainaloa roundabout was built too small and would have to be improved before anything else would work. How stupid was that?
As for PMAR, they mentioned that the study was getting underway, but the first public meetins are still "months away." Six routes are being considered, and although they didn't specifically mention it, at least some of those are mauka of 130 according to earlier reports. The cost will be at least $300 million, and "federal assistance will be essential." Greggor Ilagan grabbed the third rail of Hawaii politics and said that a route throuh Hawaiian Homelands should be considered. Yeah, right.
We all know that it will cost twice as much and take twice as long as whatever their study indicates. And this being Puna, there will be opposition to whatever is proposed.