• Police: patrol parking lots for expired safety stickers • Puhi Safeway is good planning • Dream became nightmare • A good-neighbor poem Police: patrol parking lots for expired safety stickers Ever since my daughter was stopped by a patrolling
• Police: patrol parking lots for expired safety stickers • Puhi Safeway is good planning • Dream became nightmare • A good-neighbor poem
Police: patrol parking lots for expired safety stickers
Ever since my daughter was stopped by a patrolling police officer for having an expired safety sticker on her car’s bumper, and subsequently fined, I have looked at bumpers when stopped at stop signs, in slow bumper-to-bumper traffic, and especially at cars in parking lots. To my amazement and incredulity, I see cars and pickup trucks with expired safety stickers most every time my wife and I go shopping.
In light of our islands’ economic situations as well as traffic congestion, one way towards the improvement of both is to assign police or public officials, with arresting powers, to patrol (walk through) the parking lots of shopping centers looking for any expired safety sticker. When such a vehicle is found, they should attach a wheel lock so it cannot be moved. A citation should then written and placed on the windshield with information detailing the infraction, and where to call for having the wheel lock removed. Prior to removing the wheel lock, the vehicle, with the owner’s knowledge, should be towed to the closest safety inspection station to be inspected for a current sticker. The fine for this infraction should be no less than $100 plus the towing charges and safety inspection. If not paid, the vehicle should be promptly impounded. It is expected that the safety inspector will check the vehicle for any illegally-dark, after-market window tinting and loud exhaust noise. The extra-wide wheels, without fender extenders, and height requirements on these high-running pickup trucks should also be inspected as it appears that many are not.
Wheel locks come in several types and shapes, but a good, practical, and inexpensive one is made by Pit Bull. See www.tirelock.com/PitBull_Tirelock_p/8-00022.htm.
William Null, Kapa‘a
Puhi Safeway is good planning
In response to the building of a Safeway mini shopping mall across CKMS (Chiefess Kamakahelei Middle School, “New Safeway construction set,” June 26). I do hear your concerns about the students crossing Nuhou Street wherever they please, and the dangers that are caused by vehicular traffic. Instead of trying to stop the building of the Safeway in an already-developed area, there should be more focus on adding security measures by possibly adding more crosswalks in that area with crossing guards immediately after school’s out, possibly lowering the speed limit and adding rumble strips to force people to slow down, along with the addition of a roundabout as proposed and should be enforced, will definitely slow traffic down considerably.
About the children wandering around Kukui Grove, when they are wandering they are doing so within the mall property and not the roads. This mini mall will also give the elderly home citizens the opportunity to do their shopping by simply going across the street and not having to catch the bus or drive.
This location is a good one. It’s right next to Kaumuali‘i Highway where everyone from Puhi, South Side, and the Westside drives through to get into Lihu‘e. It will offer them the opportunity to do their shopping all in one convenient area instead of driving all the way to Kapa‘a, thus keeping more cars off the road.
Proper planning and concentrating it in one area like Lihu‘e or Kapa‘a will give us the opportunity to keep our open lands untouched and rural once you drive out town.
Isaac Dotimas, Puhi
Dream became nightmare
I was dancing all over the place as I heard the great news, the U.S. military finally woke up, the RIMPAC War Games scheduled in July were canceled due to the unanimous decision by U.S. law makers and the U.S. military leaders. “The oceans are in deep trouble, and the loop of insanity has to stop now,” said a top official. “We will be creating a world peace movement honoring the ocean and all sea life starting now.”
Every two years, a unique tide surges of bombs, hideous underwater sound and military play into Hawaiian waters, but this time, instead of the 34 ships, five submarines and more than 100 aircraft and 20,000 military personnel, the Hawaiian waters will enjoy peace and quiet and the many prayers for the planet’s water. Whales, dolphins and sea turtles are all celebrating and spreading the monumental news. The U.S. military personnel and another type of arsenal will be going to the oil-spill region lending their helping hands. Countries including Australia, Canada, Japan, Singapore and South Korea, as well as from the West Coast of the U.S., for the biennial “Rim of the Pacific” 2010 war games, the world’s largest international maritime exercise will exercise peace in the spirit of one. And then I woke up and then I cried.
Sadly, the insanity remains and more ocean suffering will go on.
Diana LaBedz, Waimea
A good-neighbor poem
As I sit on my patio at my house
Toxic dust cloud is the taste in my mouth
For a seed company that rhymes with “polenta”
Is spraying toxic pesticides upwind from my ‘ohana
Same situation as Waimea school
$50,000 for a pesticide study?
Must be in the pocket of some fool
tremors, nausea, convulsions, tightness in the chest
some of the side effects of these companies’ tests
100 feet upwind
spraying these chemicals around a neighborhood is a sin
So I ask the leaders of our community
stop this insanity so our neighborhood can breathe free.
Aloha,
Todd Thrasher, Puhi
