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Originally posted by mearth11
From mermaid53: quote:
HPP's negotiating with the County on what HPP needs in place before approx 7,000 cars come through. So far the County hasn't been very cooperative.
Could you elaborate please? Also, at this point, what would the County's cooperation look like?
At the last General Membership Meeting, a lot owner asked the board the status of the emergency access road issue. The board has hired a land use attorney to represent HPP to negotiate directly with the County stating what HPP wishes to have in place before they sign a right of entry document. At that point in time, they had not heard back from the County yet.
The Emergency Access Road Committee had also given the board their recommendations on what they'd like to see presented to the County for HPP. They were either jersey (concrete) or water filled barricades for all the cross streets off of Makuu.
The County offered us A frame style barricades which would be useless. Manning the A frame barricades with volunteers is unrealistic. Peak hours twice a day for how many days, weeks...???
Another recommendation was for the County to manage the traffic flow on Makuu. There are portable traffic lights on the corner of RR and Makuu ready to go when needed. The County has also striped and installed reflectors on Makuu from RR up to the highway.
Another item on the wish list was for the County to water RR's dirt road on dry days.
If the County doesn't secure our cross roads off Makuu with more substantial type barricades, like the Type III barricade at least, traffic off RR and Makuu will flow through HPP via those cross roads and up to Hwy 130. Travelers would travel swiftly along our paved roads as they do in the upper part of the park already. It'd be great if the County would agree to maintain the roads most impacted.
The County so far weren't cooperative when they were asked to indemnify our roads if the traffic is going to flow freely through HPP. HPP has got to consider liabilities with this scenario.
The other issue is that Makuu's shoulders are iffy for anyone who needs to pull off the road. If a car breaks down or an EMS vehicle is traveling on Makuu it can be a problem. What a clog that would be!
Early on the County had planned to shore up our shoulders with fill but that isn't on the table anymore. Once the County shifted their attention to Chain of Craters, our concerns have gone by the wayside.
Another option suggested might be to also add a barricade on Makuu just below RR so no one can turn right off of RR. Barricade all the cross roads from RR up to the highway. Those below RR would have access to use HPP's roads to get to the highway. This would eliminate some of the traffic coming from below RR adding to the congestion on Makuu. Barricade Beach from our side until it's absolutely needed. HPP owns half of Beach Rd as well so why wouldn't we be able to have say on the traffic management until it's needed? The County hasn't maintained their portion of Beach Rd (makai side)in HPP, which runs from south of Makuu to north of Kaloli side.
At the recent Pahoa High School Lava Flow meeting, Warren Lee said that if the lava flows over RR, they'll be encouraging travelers to use Chain of Crater and not Beach.