Milo Street traffic cam

[shockwave rider]

The Hawaiian Acres people are going to love this, Hawaii County is installing a traffic cam at Milo Street so people can look before they leave Hilo and cut through Hawaiian Acres instead if the merge is backed up. They specifically referenced people taking 8 road to avoid the merge and construction.

http://hawaiitribune-herald.com/news/loc...aau-bypass

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

I would also like the County of Hawaii to offer 8x10 photos, suitable for framing, of what they expect that same section of road to look like after the Highway 130 extension is completed to Maku'u Drive. At 5:30 in the afternoon, any Monday through Friday. As long as they're in the photography business now.

Maybe wallet sized too. So we can carry one to look at as we're sitting in traffic waiting to merge near the animal shelter, or soon Shower Drive, for the next 3 or 4 years.

[lavalava]

Well, thanks to the County I now have their blessing to cut through HA.

[kalakoa]

their blessing to cut through HA.

Just remember that Road 8 is not a County Road; it's still privately owned, with an access easement, and no enforceable speed limits.

Anyway, from the article:

1. Outsourced off-island and out-of-country:

Traffic Division and Honolulu engineers for the Swedish video manufacturer Axis Communications

2. Expensive:

preliminary price to install about two-thirds of the cameras and associated operating network is about $17 million

3. Inadequate:

The problem is, when we test that, we slow down our own access

4. Selective infrastructure:

What that basically does is sets up all the signals with fiber optics

The last one irritates me most of all: County can manage a Federally-funded fiber optic network to watch cars, but they can't seem to entice Oceanic to provide rural broadband -- other municipalities have managed to "share" their traffic-signal fiber to create a regional backbone as a way of stimulating high-tech investment.

It's especially galling when one considers that the fiber is already in place: I watched the crews installing it a couple of years ago along 130.

[HereOnThePrimalEdge]

Cameras of the lava flow. Cameras that show cars moving at the speed of a lava flow.

Maybe the county has decided we won't ever expect anything from them, as long as we can watch the world's longest, slowest reality show. For Hawaii County taxpayers, probably the most expensive too per viewer.

I want my... I want my M.T.V...

Now that ain't working, that's the way you do it
Let me tell you them guys ain't dumb
Maybe get a blister on your little finger
Maybe get a blister on your thumb

And he's up there, what's that? Hawaiian noises?
Banging on the bongos like a chimpanzee
Now look at them yo-yo's, that's the way you do it
Money for nothing and chicks for free
Easy, easy money...

[lavalava]

Hawaiian noises...

[terracore]

Maybe Hawaiian Acres needs to set up a toll booth. Free to residents, of course. It works for the Maku'u market.

[bananahead]

Be sure to drive over 55 on 8...
The 'jump' works better at that speed...
Aloha

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[lavalava]

70 something is the top of my comfort level...

[lquade]

let this be a lesson for HPP. it doesnt matter what the county promises as far as private roads... road 8 was an "emergency access road". so now, an emergency is a traffic jam.... hawaiian acres residents pay for their roads.... it is an easement that was granted with several promises such as bike paths, walking path etc...