Roundabout training
Roundabout training
May I suggest a training aid for those who do not know how to use a traffic circle (roundabout) such as the one being constructed in Pahoa?
Drive down Highway 11 to Hilo. Turn right at the Ken’s House of Pancakes’ intersection, as if you are going to the commercial port, and immediately turn right again toward the airport.
You will then be in a traffic circle. It has been there for decades and is used by hundreds of cars and trucks each day.
William Spurlock
Keaau
Do-nothing board
The continued inability and intransigence of the current county Ethics Board to reach any decisions speaks loudly for the need to have more members. Is there any real doubt that every county district should be represented?
Let’s get this on the November ballot and let the people decide.
What are you afraid of?
Neal Herbert
Hilo
Ignoring our concerns
I am appalled to learn that not only is the county going to try to push through a plan for the “improvements” of Kukuihaele Park for twice the budgeted cost (that taxpayers will be paying for in tax increases for years to come), but County Councilwoman Valerie Poindexter was quoted as saying there is a lot of division in the community.
If that is so, which is highly debatable, and she has yet to show any real proof of this division, why wouldn’t the county want to delay the process so the community can develop a more pono process of consensus building? They are shoving their plans down our throat and creating the very division Poindexter says is “a hard thing.”
Poindexter continues to relay misinformation that a minority of residents don’t want the improvements. The majority do want the improvements, but do not want the ugly and poorly planned ballpark, and they have serious concerns about water, environmental, cultural and traffic issues that have not been addressed.
More infuriating is that Poindexter clearly disclosed that the county will, in fact, be widening the road next year, something I can bet none of the residents in this small village want.
The bypass road was built years ago to siphon traffic out of the village, and now the county seems to have no problem with planning to send it back in. How is this in keeping with Poindexter’s comment that, “I wouldn’t go after something that a community would not want and that would not benefit the community”?
I can guarantee that ruining the character of a historic village would fly in the face of this assertion. For shame!
Jeanne Teleia
Kukuihaele