• Reminders of a great president • Traffic woes need action, not empty words Reminders of a great president Virtually every day, President Trump unwittingly reminds me of yet another salutary deed President Obama accomplished for our great country. Jed
• Reminders of a great president • Traffic woes need action, not empty words
Reminders of a great president
Virtually every day, President Trump unwittingly reminds me of yet another salutary deed President Obama accomplished for our great country.
Jed Somit, Kapaa
Traffic woes need action, not empty words
What a fine column Ken Taylor wrote: “Traffic issues in the General Plan raise roadblocks” (TGI, Oct. 10).
He did his homework and researched the numbers and statistics, and those figures were not pretty.
When Kauai is expected to receive only about $630 million for transportation projects between 2014 and 2035 and yetestimated costs to address identified transportation needs by 2035 would be nearly $3.3 billion along with another $100million backlog for maintenance, we can see that drastic measures must be taken and should have been taken long agobefore total gridlock on our roads takes place.
These alarming numbers did not start happening yesterday, but what have those who run our government been doing for 30years to see that we should not be facing this impending disaster? Nothing, absolutely nothing!
We have had one highway circling three-fourths of our island for 80 years and no one had the vision or fortitude to openalternate roads for our major means of transportation, vehicles, emergency vehicles and commercial trucks. A few wiserminds did suggest opening the power line road from the Southside to the North Shore but their voices were vetoed by themore ignorant.
Having worked for the state Department of Transportation for 35 years I could see what was coming but my voice in thetrenches was not heard. I know that both the state and the county should be and should have been long ago in collaborationwith every project that is done on Kauai, but we seem better suited to just point the finger at each other instead of knowingthat this is one island and should be taken care of for everyone.
We cannot change what wasn’t done in the past, but those cane haul roads are still out there waiting to be used and hopefullywe will have someone in authority step up to the plate and see that they are opened to the public. Maybe not the totalsolution but action taken that will be far better than getting more “experts” to give us nothing but meaningless words.
Joe Rosa, Lihue
