Ms. Naeole and Route 130

[Kahunascott]

She may have mentioned it early but the majority of the public hasn’t heard it from her until now, election time.
What you should be concerned with is the idea itself. It’s obvious that Emily was fed some information and she ran with it blind. It’s the worst solution for Hwy 130 to date.
The controls using counterflow are either signals (red or green) or a movable concrete barrier. Red or Green for direction flow or swing the movable barrier left or right one lane. Counterflow adds a lane in the middle of the road that is used in either direction during heavy traffic times.
With that said it can only be used where there is NO or limited access. (Bridges) With the amount of intersections along that route you would be playing Russian Roulette by driving in that lane if it is only controlled by signals. The movable barrier is very, very expensive so that isn’t an option. Plus you still have to widen the road in places and restripe the entire section where the new lanes are used. Maybe she needs to go on another field trip to the mainland (at our expense) to see what she is offering.
The “Fix the problem now” is to widen the mauka shoulder from the Keaau merge to Paradise Drive. (like Shower to the Humane Society north bound) Most of the shoulder is wide enough to support a travel lane with some rock removal and a culvert bridge just south of the Humane Society.
It’s cheap and fast and could be constructed with in a year.
That’s what we should all be fighting for.
IF the reconstruction of Hwy 130 starts in 2011 it will not be finished for years to come.
This will drive the construction costs through the roof if and when or if it ever gets completed.[B)]


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