Highway 130 Updates

[JerryCarr]

I support the installation of some roundabouts for the simple reason that we need to think outside the usual DOT box and so something to counter their long list of standard things that don't work. The problem is that the guys at the DOT really don't like listening to the public and really don't want to try anything new to them. I know this is true because I went to a community service fair in Pahoa where some guys in the DOT booth actually had a blueprint for a roundabout. Instead of discussing the possibilities afforded by the concept, they ridiculed it and said their boss made them go there with the diagram when they knew it would never work. One of them mumbled something about the oddball folks here in Puna who were pushing for roundabouts. Hmmmm, I wonder who they could have been talking about? Anyway, I told them to loosen up and try something different, and I could tell from their looks that I had instantly been consigned to the "oddball" category. Not such a bad place for me to be actually.

Cheers,
Jerry