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the ocean road in Pohoiki
Is this an "actual" road, or just a "road-shaped piece of private property (open to the public)"?
Seriously, County might have simply decided "not ours"...
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That's a section of road that was bypassed and abandoned !
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I believe DLNR "owns" this section and they seem to have no interest in cleaning it up. As of 2 weeks ago, it still has not been cleaned up and it has now been over 2 years since the storm.
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The short coastline section that has been wrecked by the storm is closed. My wife and I spend a lot of time at Pohoiki. Very few tourists or children walk over the broken asphalt. There is not much there, as all the action is the other direction. The children's climbing structure and adjacent picnic tables have recently been improved by building roofs. The kids can now climb and play in the sun without getting burned as the structure heated up. Excellent work by gov't. The broken road is not hazardous, any more than the coastline everywhere on this island.
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I always thought that would be a good area to build kiddie ponds... much like Onekahakaha beach park. It wouldn't take much to develop.
Thank you for the many responses.
This area of the coastline has become very Hazardous and will become popular or visited once again. along both sides of the remaining portion of asphalt road in that section are now three foot drop offs on to uneven lava rocks because of the high tide and big wave washouts. If someone is walking day or "night" in that area and steps off the road by accident it has the potential of being a serious accident.
My Kids do like to play on that now covered playground in Pohoiki. They also enjoy walking the less than hundred yards to go fishing and catching bait on the left side "woods side" of that broken up asphalt road. My four year old caught the biggest fish of his young life in there recently and we always see turtles there. Four wheel drive vehicles come in at times, while bottles and trash are being thrown about the area. The hundreds of broken up and left pieces of asphalt helps make the area look like a future illegal dumping zone. Jmo
P.S. The Original Red Cinder road in that area was actually quite nice and lasted for several decades. Why not restore it and help make it a popular portion of pohoiki for the Keiki? Relieving the boat ramp area from the congestion and very young swimmers may not be a bad idea before someone gets seriously hurt by the many fishing or tourism boats. jmo
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If someone is walking day or "night" in that area
...then they should be cited for "entering a closed area".
Why not restore it
Because we don't even have "enough funds" to maintain the existing roads?
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When the road was re-routed, the old abandoned stretch was closed to traffic (the vehicles in the video would have had to drive by signs stating such - most remained standing after Iselle)
To repair closed roads would be counter intuitive & could encourage people to drive onto a road segment that is a known flooding hazard... & that would be totally fool-hardy (there are more than one of these closed road sections on Red Road)
Onekahakaha was created years before CZMs, EIS regulation, & even the cultural awareness of coastal areas.... to build a breakwater protected park today, near the steeply banked ocean slopes that surround Pohoiki, would be very time consuming (think decades for approvals) and very expensive. And not really practical in the Pohoiki area, as is evidenced by the damage the ocean caused the road section.... with rising waters & storm surge, the maintenance of a protected park there would be prohibitive for county or state.....
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"This area of the coastline has become very Hazardous and will become popular or visited once again. along both sides of the remaining portion of asphalt road in that section are now three foot drop offs on to uneven lava rocks because of the high tide and big wave washouts. If someone is walking day or "night" in that area and steps off the road by accident it has the potential of being a serious accident."
To get there you have to pass 2 very obvious read warning signs in the road and a very large road closed sign in the middle of the road.It is impossible to drive a vehicle there !
