• We need to stop • Practice common courtesy We need to stop Driving on Kaua‘i, in and around Lihu‘e, I maneuver my car to avoid pot-hole after pothole. It takes skill, especially when oncoming cars are doing the same.
• We need to stop
• Practice common courtesy
We need to stop
Driving on Kaua‘i, in and around Lihu‘e, I maneuver my car to avoid pot-hole after pothole. It takes skill, especially when oncoming cars are doing the same.
All the while I’m wondering why we are spending so much energy on developing the promenade, among others things, in Lihu‘e (the so-called “Lihu‘e Town Core Urban Design Plan”)? Why are we talking about tree wells on Rice and ‘Umi streets? Didn’t they do that on O‘ahu, only to have to remove it later on because it proved to be a hindrance?
What does it take to stop the wheels once they begin turning?
We need to stop.
We need to redirect our efforts. Pave our roadways. Invest in Menehune Fishpond and Running Waters and the land alongside the airport runway. Once the land is sold and, in the case of Running Waters / the airport area, once the million-dollar homes are established (note that only 24 homes are slated to be “affordable”), the local people will lose access.
We need to stop.
We need to invest our efforts in and for the people of Kaua‘i!
Some 10 years ago or more, the then-Westin Kauai and developer Chris Hemmeter had proposed to limit shoreline access to Ninini Point /Running Waters. Hemmeter offered to make a limited number of golf carts (maybe 10) available for use by local fisherman and beach goers to access the shoreline. Up went the guard stations which for now remain unmanned, but for how long, Ron Kouchi? What is Kauai Lagoons’ and your vision for the local people at this five-hundred- million-dollar mega resort?
The public hearing to review the developer’s shore management area (SMA) plan will be on June 28, 2005. Keep a keen eye/ear out for location, time, and possible date changes.
Although, according to Mr. Kouchi, a shovel of dirt has not yet been turned, the heavy equipment has been out there clearing and staking the land since early to mid-May.
What will it take to stop the wheels?
We need to stop.
- Lynn Garcia
Lifetime resident of Lihu‘e
Practice common courtesy
The Kapa‘a bypass “roundabout” project is nearly done and, hey, it looks like it’s gonna work.
We couldn’t see at first how it would work, or even if it would, but now that the “big picture” is nearly complete, it makes sense.
There is just one more factor that would make the project perfect. Drivers. If, as Ron Wiley has mentioned on the radio, all drivers yield to the car on the left, we’ll have no problems. But if someone tries to slip into the circle before the guy on the left, accidents will happen.
Let’s all try to practice common courtesy when we’re driving in the vicinity of the Kapa‘a bypass. And if courtesy isn’t a big enough motivation, think about the life you may be saving by waiting a second or two before hitting the gas pedal. It may be your own.
