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2 days ago some clown was doing 25mph from shower to kea'au dump in the passing fast lane - we gave the dash cam to unko blue light who is a nephew and they went to visit him in H.P.P...
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Imagine what happens if you combine the two, a lava outbreak with bad driving. I hope we won't find out.
Judging by the way every other evacuation in the rest of the world goes, it'll be walking pace at best. Bad or good drivers won't matter.
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Elkad -Our truck is lifted - If for what ever reason we can not see you - you will be toast. This is not the stainland - keep your idiotic driving from where you came from PLEASE. Yes we sometimes go 50mph in the slow lane on 130. If you insist on cutting in front of us and we must slam brake - our dash cam will record you and unko blue light will take it from there.The ER is in Hilo - not puna . Drive with Aloha .
Mrs.Mimosa and Ohana
If I failed to check for brake lights ahead and cut in front of you to be rear-ended, it's my fault and I'll take my lumps. Unlikely though. And near-same-speed rear-end accidents are rarely bad (for the occupants) anyway, just an inconvenience.
I haven't mentioned being aggressive or driving recklessly anywhere here. Just being polite to other drivers and encouraging traffic to flow smoothly. There is no reason to stop at the roundabout because a car on the far side is arriving at the same time as you. The roundabout will hold a half-dozen cars easily, yet people seem to think it's a one-car-at-a-time road.
Marking police doesn't matter in Puna (do they even work traffic in Puna? I've never seen it. Of course I've only spent about a year there over the last decade). You generally can't speed anyway, and the limits are on the reasonable side.
On the excessively low speed limits on Saddle, it does matter. That road is well-engineered from end to end, no reason for it to have a limit below 75mph. But not only is it set low, it randomly changes to even lower limits in spots, without even a cross-street.
And marking other stuff on Waze would be handy. Waze happily led me right into a construction+schoolzone mess in Hilo recently, because nobody had marked any of it. I marked it myself, and the next day it guided me around it.
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do they even work traffic in Puna?
They did some years ago. I managed to get a speeding ticket -- but I had to try really hard.
marking other stuff on Waze would be handy
Requires alternate routes -- and cellphone coverage -- and risks a ticket for "use of phone while driving". Other than that, sure.
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every other evacuation in the rest of the world goes, it'll be walking pace at best. Bad or good drivers won't matter.
Yes, but do those other places also have an unregulated off road caravan with an abundance of ATV's, big wheel 4 wheel drive trucks, dirt bikes, golf carts, riding lawn mowers, small Kabotas, back hoes, etc., all willing to try and squeeze around the traffic jam on mostly non existent road shoulders, tilted at a 35 degree angle?
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From Elkad: "As a mainlander who visits often... Just...encouraging traffic to flow smoothly."
I offered a similar suggestions 6 months ago...forget it, you're wasting your time...
"Please move to the left edge of the lane when waiting to turn left, so people going forward can get by on the right shoulder." (Rule 1)
Passing on the right is much frowned upon here. In Hilo you routinely see 15-20 cars backed up on major roads for this reason. In the past 2 years officials painted new white roadsides lines all around Hilo to deter such. (You won't see this idiocy in Honolulu or in most places on the mainland.)
"Please move to the left...at red lights when going forward, so people turning right-on-red can get by on the right shoulder." (Rule 2)
Nope. Allowed only from a dedicated right turn lane. More white lines enforce such.
"There is no reason to stop at the roundabout because a car on the far side is arriving at the same time as you." (Rule 3)
Fat chance convincing local drivers of this.
(My) Rule 4: When taking a left turn at a Left Turn Yield on Green intersection, pull INTO the intersection and then turn after all oncoming traffic has passed. (allows more cars to turn left) Again, Nope.
Most east Hawaii residents equate all of the above as rude driving. And local traffic officials have determined that driving customs that were the norm in East Hawaii in the 1950s are to prevail today.
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" Rule 4: When taking a left turn at a Left Turn Yield on Green intersection, pull INTO the intersection and then turn after all oncoming traffic has passed. (allows more cars to turn left)"
You'll notice this most often during rush hour on intersections with lights but not green arrows, usually a senior citizen who can barely see over the wheel, does not pull up when taking a left and furthermore, when the aloha comes out from the driver in the opposite directions, giving a hand signal or flashing headlights does no good and the left turner does not accept the aloha, just sits there blinking.
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marking other stuff on Waze would be handy
Requires alternate routes -- and cellphone coverage -- and risks a ticket for "use of phone while driving". Other than that, sure
Alternate routes are a problem admittedly. But not in the Hilo snarls. And even if there isn't one and it says "estimated 44 minute delay", I know to stop somewhere for a malasada.
Cell coverage seems much improved this year. At least on Verizon. I had voice coverage basically everywhere I went, and data most places. Tethering to my phone where I was staying was far faster than Hawaii Telecom DSL.
Waze is completely handsfree now. Just tell it what you want. It will navigate, make reports, or whatever else.
"Waze - report pigs in roadway" (either type) "OK, sending report"
"Waze, add a stop at Malama Market" "OK, rerouting, and sending your updated ETA to (spouse)"
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(My) Rule 4: When taking a left turn at a Left Turn Yield on Green intersection, pull INTO the intersection and then turn after all oncoming traffic has passed. (allows more cars to turn left) Again, Nope.
That is actually the official procedure in the Driver's Handbook here for unprotected left turns at lights.
Pull into intersection, wait to turn safely. If the light turns red, wait for oncoming traffic to stop and then complete your turn safely.
What makes that especially odd is my current state of residence is one of the few where failure to EXIT the intersection before the light turns red is a moving violation. In most states you merely have to enter it before it changes. So the handbook tells you to break the law.
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(pull INTO the intersection on green) "That is actually the official procedure in the Driver's Handbook here for unprotected left turns at lights."
Yup, that is a legal, optional move, but most people here avoid that.
In the 1960s in Honolulu people drove Hilo-style. Then traffic got steadily worse, their driving patterns evolved for efficiency.
If you are stuck in super heavy traffic, chill. Not much you can do. If heavy traffic is aggravated by lame driving....well....you better chill also. East Hawaii traffic officials are determined to resist efficient driving practices that are the norm most everywhere else. Airport's new speed bumps is an example.
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