08-11-2008, 04:49 PM
While it may not "seem like" widening the highway will increase traffic, repeated cases over and over and over again have demonstrated exactly that. Do the research.
No need for armchair engineers.
Repeated cases have demonstrated the lowest cost, safest, most readily available, longest-lasting options:
1) Keep traffic demand internal to the community.
2) Get more people in each car that is on the road (e.g., carpooling).
3) Get people out of cars, especially with more use of mass transit.
Until the above three have been done to a much, much greater degree than we have anywhere on this island, more highway lanes are futile and a waste of money.
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park
No need for armchair engineers.
Repeated cases have demonstrated the lowest cost, safest, most readily available, longest-lasting options:
1) Keep traffic demand internal to the community.
2) Get more people in each car that is on the road (e.g., carpooling).
3) Get people out of cars, especially with more use of mass transit.
Until the above three have been done to a much, much greater degree than we have anywhere on this island, more highway lanes are futile and a waste of money.
James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park