12-21-2008, 10:14 AM
Aloha Damon, I have long considered the plan for Hwy. 130 to be a done deal. The Advisory Group is mostly window dressing.
IF you are able to achieve getting the power lines buried that would be a good thing and a big deal. If the Advisory Group was able to bring some real and true consideration of roundabouts to the project I would be pleased and impressed.
The HDOT is primarily geared to serve the construction industry in the consumption of Federal dollars. They are skilled at it and know how much juice they can get from a lemon if they stick with what they know. IF they have to actually consider new theories and methods then their understanding of how much juice they can squeeze becomes shaky and indeterminate - makes them worry. They prefer to simply repeat the same mistakes over and over for that primary reason.
I spoke to the head engineer for HDOT a few months back, I recall his name as Alvin Takesheeta, and he told me that the billions they have spent on Oahu have basically been a failure. They add lanes and signals at great expense and traffic rapidly overwhelms it. Now they want to do the same thing here.
For these reasons I have described their "Context Sensitive Design" approach to be "Context Insensitive". They are steering toward a predetermined conclusion. Your Advisory Group is part of that predetermined conclusion.
I will sing your praises if you can succeed in getting the power lines buried on the highway and nothing more.
Good luck. I mean it.
Should the Puna community actually want more fom this project then a replication of Kanoelehua then I think only a lawsuit would influence them.... and the influence would only be becasue a lawsuit would slow the flow on money.... but the Advisory Group is in place primarily to protect them from such an event. See.... they are getting community input.
Rob
IF you are able to achieve getting the power lines buried that would be a good thing and a big deal. If the Advisory Group was able to bring some real and true consideration of roundabouts to the project I would be pleased and impressed.
The HDOT is primarily geared to serve the construction industry in the consumption of Federal dollars. They are skilled at it and know how much juice they can get from a lemon if they stick with what they know. IF they have to actually consider new theories and methods then their understanding of how much juice they can squeeze becomes shaky and indeterminate - makes them worry. They prefer to simply repeat the same mistakes over and over for that primary reason.
I spoke to the head engineer for HDOT a few months back, I recall his name as Alvin Takesheeta, and he told me that the billions they have spent on Oahu have basically been a failure. They add lanes and signals at great expense and traffic rapidly overwhelms it. Now they want to do the same thing here.
For these reasons I have described their "Context Sensitive Design" approach to be "Context Insensitive". They are steering toward a predetermined conclusion. Your Advisory Group is part of that predetermined conclusion.
I will sing your praises if you can succeed in getting the power lines buried on the highway and nothing more.
Good luck. I mean it.
Should the Puna community actually want more fom this project then a replication of Kanoelehua then I think only a lawsuit would influence them.... and the influence would only be becasue a lawsuit would slow the flow on money.... but the Advisory Group is in place primarily to protect them from such an event. See.... they are getting community input.
Rob
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