12-25-2007, 09:39 AM
JayJay,
About, "Lights must go in at the key intersections."
Traffic lights are not the place to start, and may have no place at all in improving our transportatin networks in Puna.
Why? If some type of traffic control is needed, the safest, lowest cost, and most reliable is a roundabout. (see roundaboutsusa.com and links from there, so you do not immediately confuse rondabouts with the completely different 'traffic circles'.)
Furthermore, the future is not about driving daily 30 to 60 mile roundtrips Puna - Hilo.
As this thread is about gasoline, I would point out that roundabouts lower fuel consumption and emissions; and less driving means less petrol burned, right?
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park
About, "Lights must go in at the key intersections."
Traffic lights are not the place to start, and may have no place at all in improving our transportatin networks in Puna.
Why? If some type of traffic control is needed, the safest, lowest cost, and most reliable is a roundabout. (see roundaboutsusa.com and links from there, so you do not immediately confuse rondabouts with the completely different 'traffic circles'.)
Furthermore, the future is not about driving daily 30 to 60 mile roundtrips Puna - Hilo.
As this thread is about gasoline, I would point out that roundabouts lower fuel consumption and emissions; and less driving means less petrol burned, right?
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park