04-23-2007, 04:48 AM
I agree.
Stoplights are a very good thing.
Personally, I much preferred the skinny/wobbly two-lane once-upon-a-time Keaau-Pahoa Highway, with it's single row of skinny/wobbly telephone-poles and it's magnificent droopy mango trees, but dem daze is gone, I'm afraid...along with much of the aloha and brain-function on the roads.
Hate to have to share this tidbit in public (since what it is likely to do in effect is double-up the amount of traffic in a certain stretch), but maybe it'll save someone's life....as it has mine nearly every weekday morning for the past couple years:
Seeing as it's virtually impossible (and too much of a death-defying risk)to make a left-hand turn out of Paradise onto 130 in the mornings any more, I've instituted my own "roundabout."
In order to take a left, in order to go to Pahoa, I instead take a right, go to Orchidland, take a left, spin around in front of the mailboxes, and then take a right onto 130. So far so good.
There are just too many folks going wayyy too fast on that highway. And coupled with the fact that 98.6% of them are either putting on their lipstick, slappin' at the kids in the back seat, hollering at their ex on the cellphone, trying to make sense out of some tax-map-key, or reaching down to grab a coffee/Corona/cheeseburger/joint, one of us is bound to die.
And soon.
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Edited by - malolo on 04/23/2007 08:50:58
Stoplights are a very good thing.
Personally, I much preferred the skinny/wobbly two-lane once-upon-a-time Keaau-Pahoa Highway, with it's single row of skinny/wobbly telephone-poles and it's magnificent droopy mango trees, but dem daze is gone, I'm afraid...along with much of the aloha and brain-function on the roads.
Hate to have to share this tidbit in public (since what it is likely to do in effect is double-up the amount of traffic in a certain stretch), but maybe it'll save someone's life....as it has mine nearly every weekday morning for the past couple years:
Seeing as it's virtually impossible (and too much of a death-defying risk)to make a left-hand turn out of Paradise onto 130 in the mornings any more, I've instituted my own "roundabout."
In order to take a left, in order to go to Pahoa, I instead take a right, go to Orchidland, take a left, spin around in front of the mailboxes, and then take a right onto 130. So far so good.
There are just too many folks going wayyy too fast on that highway. And coupled with the fact that 98.6% of them are either putting on their lipstick, slappin' at the kids in the back seat, hollering at their ex on the cellphone, trying to make sense out of some tax-map-key, or reaching down to grab a coffee/Corona/cheeseburger/joint, one of us is bound to die.
And soon.
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Edited by - malolo on 04/23/2007 08:50:58