Got the answer .Thank you all.

[Greg]

Hope,

If you put smaller wheels on your car, the speedometer will read higher. Basic physics.


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Stoneface

[Dave M]

"If you put smaller wheels on your car, the speedometer will read higher. Basic physics."

This is what I'm talking about right here.. I can get behind this kinda outta the box thinking. Yep smaller wheels, you mentally get there 45 min early.. there you go. Hell, this could possibly be the answer to global warming. Bravo Greg!

Seriously Hope, i feel bad here cuz I may have mislead you. I forgot all about the new cell phone laws turns out we're gonna have most of PUNAWEB pulled over on the right hand shoulder using their cell phones.

Soo we're gonna have to go to plan B. It's called the two bump procedure (Note: I don't think this is even addressed in the Hawaii driving manual, so it must be OK Alls you need to do is ease up behind the mope (slow guy) in front of you and right when you're about to bump him put your car in neutral, this will make for a nice easy little bump. Now you only do this twice just enough to say "hey I'm running late here and I need to get passed you" Don't forget to put your car back in drive..

And always remember to give them a little wave after you pass them, just your way of saying hey thanks for sharing the road with others. I hope this helps..



Blessings,
dave

"It doesn't mean that much to me.. to mean that much to you." Neil Young

[mella l]

Just another thought. Those minimum 40MPH signs are very confusing to first time visitors. More than likely where ever they live there aren't any minimum speed signs.

Case in point my first visit, loads of rain, hard to read signs, every minimum 40 MPH sign I saw I slowed down to 40MPH I thought they were speed LIMIT signs! Then I'd see the 50 MPH and speed up. Up and down and very weird and unfamiliar. Very dangerous also, but hey I didn't know and wasn't seeing the best either.

mella l

"New York London Paris Hilo"

[james weatherford]

Saw interesting signs in New Zealand re speed limit, e.g, 80Km/Hr:
"This is not a target. Drive to conditions."

James Weatherford, Ph.D.
15-1888 Hialoa
Hawaiian Paradise Park

[missydog1]

funny Dave,
I wasn't going to reply again after the title changed, but since Dave is saying lighten up, just want to say, Hope, we have always interacted well and if I came down firm it was because with your first post you said ...

quote:

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2 questions:
I am passing on the right shoulder (during the wrong time).
1)-How often people get tickets for that?
2)- Were there any attempts to legalize the bypass on the right shoulder for a short distance?

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So you say "assume the best" but in three lines there you made it clear you know it is illegal and at the wrong time ... so you are asking if it's safer to do the illegal maneuver since the legal one is dicey, and it just strikes a nerve when people ask about breaking the rules of the road in order to make better time. We all want to be safe, and ignoring specific laws like that on your own discretion isn't going to make our roads safer ... and so you didn't have a receptive audience on this one.
Now back to our good forum relationship, I hope no hard feelings.

[DanielP]

It takes time to develop the right pace of the place. Let that seep into you. It will if you make room for it.

[mella l]

Daniel P that is a very interesting comment and reminds me of my move to a new community. It was in the early 80's and I moved from SF Metro to bucolic foothills of the Sierra Nevada range. Well it was slow as molasses traffic, even tho the traffic was miniscule.

It took me much longer than I care to admit to relax into it and face my 45 mile commute with a sense of enjoy the ride, enjoy the nature enjoy the double rainbows from end to end.

mella l

"New York London Paris Hilo"

[David M]

quote:

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Originally posted by DanielP

It takes time to develop the right pace of the place. Let that seep into you. It will if you make room for it.

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Great point - one that applies to many facets of living here.

Just because something is different here, don't assume it's broken or needs fixing. It likely works well, maybe even very well when you allow your attitude to adjust.

David


Ninole Resident

[StillHope]

This thread was about a suggestion that using the right shoulder

(ONLY if someone in going 35 where 55 is posted

as an EXCEPTION and MORE SAFE WAY then left shoulder.

the right shoulder IS ALREADY OPEN 2 hours on weekdays.

I guess those who make it legal and

those who don't have to work or drive the same 2 hours to work can say that I sigh up for driving 1.5 hours (instead of 4o min.)because some scenic driver wants to go 35?

Following this logic after reading on PW about multiple crimes in HPP

the same people should say :

"You bought a house in HPP,you signed up for a burglary!"

Edited by - StillHope on 01/02/2010 10:25:51


Since this thread went the way "assume the worst" there's no reason for me to participate.

[Kapohocat]

quote:

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Originally posted by Dave M...
Soo we're gonna have to go to plan B. It's called the two bump procedure (Note: I don't think this is even addressed in the Hawaii driving manual, so it must be OK Alls you need to do is ease up behind the mope (slow guy) in front of you and right when you're about to bump him put your car in neutral, this will make for a nice easy little bump. Now you only do this twice just enough to say "hey I'm running late here and I need to get passed you" Don't forget to put your car back in drive..

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[]Isn't that the "paint to pass" rule at the demo derbies? []