04-12-2008, 08:14 AM
"pretending to listen"
...pretending to 'improve'!
The road building industry, no wilting violets, intend to have roads to build. For decades Oahu has been the cash cow. Maui got a lot more land under highways during 1990's with then-Mayor Linda Lingle.
Puna is as big as Oahu, where the last big land transporation expansion is now begun: Leeward-Waikiki rail line.
For a highway engineer sitting in Honolulu looking at a map, there years of employment and millions of dollars to be carved out of Puna's wilderness with highways on top of highways -- that is what these so-called "improvements" are about.
On the 17th, I will also be in Kona, at the Public Hearing on another 'big idea' -- the proposed Hilo incinerator.
Elizabeth will probably be at the DOT's charade in Keaau.
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park