• Angel of the day • Thinks impromptu used car lots are tacky • Let God do the enforcing • Alternative traffic routes are needed • Bike path offers choices to riders Angel of the day My name is John
• Angel of the day
• Thinks impromptu used car lots are tacky
• Let God do the enforcing
• Alternative traffic routes are needed
• Bike path offers choices to riders
Angel of the day
My name is John Robinson, many know me as the owner and tree trimmer of Rainbow Trees and Landscaping Company.
I was done shopping at Home Depot on Friday, Sept. 10, when I helped a local woman in the parking lot to rope down a load in her truck. I left my wallet on her bumper by mistake and made my way into Lihu’e. I realized I had lost my wallet soon after and looked all over for it.
Later that day I received a call from Lorraine Medeiros Loy of Lawai Valley Estates. She had found my wallet on her bumper after returning home. She and I couldn’t believe she had driven so smoothly that the wallet had not fallen off from Lihu’e.
I am so grateful to her for returning my wallet and for being an excellent driver too.
. John Robinson
Kalaheo
Thinks impromptu used car lots are tacky
Is it just me or does anyone else notice how many impromptu used car lots are popping up all over Kaua’i?
People wanting to sell their used cars are parking them everywhere on public property. The most noticeable being at the intersection of Kapule and Haoa. Even across beautiful Wailua Falls, there’s a bunch of used cars for sale.
Is it only me that thinks this looks tacky. Sometimes there’s so many cars from the same owner it looks like a business. If that’s the case they should pony up for a dealer’s license, car lot and pay taxes on these transactions.
What’s next? People leaving used appliances or having garage sales on the roadside? It’s just tacky.
. Stephen Shioi
Kapa’a
Let God do the enforcing
Dr. Peter Saker has written that science has proven that evolution is impossible. Most people accept the fact that one cannot prove a negative. It can be proven that the world is round (therefore not flat), but it can NOT be proven that it was never flat. Maybe we evolved, maybe we were created, there is no real proof either way and we are all free to believe or not. In Dr. Saker’s words, either we make the rules or God does. That makes sense to me — we can each choose which set of rules to follow.
The problem arises when people like Dr. Saker appoint themselves as interpreters of God’s rules and want to force us all to abide by their interpretations. In other words, they have unilaterally decided that they are God’s enforcer as well. Over the millennia this concept that my God is better than your God has caused, and continues to cause, enormous hardships on human society.
I am willing to live under God’s rules just so long as only God does the enforcing. Let Him (or Her?) punish me for jotting down these thoughts. Otherwise all I ask is to be left alone.
. Stan Godes
Hanalei
Alternative traffic routes are needed
The mayor should be commended for what appears to be taking steps to do something about our traffic.
One thing he might consider is moving the roadway projects off of existing highways, and look at providing alternative routes. Two especially come to mind.
About 40 years ago the Federal and State governments were proposing to build a central road through Kaua’i. If this road were built with the people of upper Kapa’a and Wailua able to access it with a finger dropping from this road to Lihu’e, a significant amount of traffic would be diverted off of Kuhio Highway. Residents who live in the Homesteads and off of Kawaihau Road could drive to Lihu’e in about the same amount of time it would take to drive down to Kuhio Highway.
If people from this area or the North Shore needed to get to the south or west side, (and vice versa) this road could get them to Maluhia Road in less time then it would take them to get to Lihu’e under ideal driving conditions.
About ten years ago, the Koloa Community Association fought to have the southern bypass attached to the A&B development. When the Council removed it as a condition, then Mayor Yukimura approved the development “with reservations”; it caused a number of politicians to get a well-deserved boot out of office. This road, would have taken much of the traffic from communities west of Kalaheo along with the traffic from the Po’ipu and Kukui’ula development, off of Koloa and Maluhia Roads as well as Kaumualii Highway. The people on the makai side of Kalaheo would also have an alternative access point to Po’ipu, which would have kept them off of Koloa, and Po’ipu Roads.
If either of these roads were built instead of working on existing highways, people would not have to be stuck in traffic jams that will undoubtedly occur with construction, and in the event of an emergency the people of Kaua’i would have alternative routing available to them.
These roads would also allow people a scenic way to tour the island on bikes even allowing the island to host marathons or triathlons and bike paths. As much as a good bike path would benefit the island, the one thing the bike paths on the mainland have to support them is infrastructure: a bicyclist can ride on any one of the roads to get to the bike path without putting their life in jeopardy. Riding a bike on too many of Kaua’i roads is inviting disaster.
. Eric Toulon
Kalaheo
Bike path offers choices to riders
When you travel around the world, you will find that most other countries and citys have bike paths.
In the mainland, you have them. In Germany, you have as many as you have roads, and the people there are in much better physical condition, than Americans.
The benefits of a bike path are enormous. Not everyone wants to drive in traffic. Some people would like to stop wherever they like, put the kickstand up and take a breath and relax.
Some people want some exercise. People help out in cleaning beside the roads in Hawai’i, and they will do the same with the bike path.
Kaua’i is an island of nature, the Garden Isle. People who live here and visit should have the choice of not driving if they would rather have a peaceful bike ride.
People who do not want to ride bikes don´t have to, but everyone should have the choice of whether or not they are allowed to.
.Karin Riedel
