08-11-2008, 09:38 AM
a lot of good points being made, too many for me to list them all, just visualize me nodding. [
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Where I disagree is that widening the lane will bring more cars. Having big subdivisions that are finally getting built means there are cars. Right now, having the lava viewing come to Kalapana means hundreds of visitor cars that would normally have given Puna a miss. (I'm thinking speed traps could be a response to this new kind of traffic?)
This road needs to be two lanes each way, at least from Pahoa to Hwy 11, with a signal at each major subdivision, to be adequate for the population growth. People are not going to take the bus just because the road is dangerous. No, people will get killed.
As has been said, having two lanes allows the fast and slow people to get along with each other on the road. It gives people a better shot at making a right turn onto the highway. It gets rid of the dangerous merge crunch where people seem to throw their aloha to the wind.
I don't know what possesses people in those Puna merges or the highway to Puna in general. I drive around Hilo all the time and people are sooo polite and generous, waving each other in and through. Then you leave town and suddenly you've got jerks all around. I don't know why, but I've seen it enough times to know it's a real phenomenon.
]Where I disagree is that widening the lane will bring more cars. Having big subdivisions that are finally getting built means there are cars. Right now, having the lava viewing come to Kalapana means hundreds of visitor cars that would normally have given Puna a miss. (I'm thinking speed traps could be a response to this new kind of traffic?)
This road needs to be two lanes each way, at least from Pahoa to Hwy 11, with a signal at each major subdivision, to be adequate for the population growth. People are not going to take the bus just because the road is dangerous. No, people will get killed.
As has been said, having two lanes allows the fast and slow people to get along with each other on the road. It gives people a better shot at making a right turn onto the highway. It gets rid of the dangerous merge crunch where people seem to throw their aloha to the wind.
I don't know what possesses people in those Puna merges or the highway to Puna in general. I drive around Hilo all the time and people are sooo polite and generous, waving each other in and through. Then you leave town and suddenly you've got jerks all around. I don't know why, but I've seen it enough times to know it's a real phenomenon.