South Shore road maintenance must improve
South Shore road maintenance must improve
As described by others recently – the roads in the Koloa-Poipu area are currently a disgrace. For an area that presumes to be the top tourist area on Kauai and by rough calculation pays in excess of $200,000 per day in various county, state and federal taxes, we deserve better.
We residents were all also hoping the additional ½percent GET tax may have prompted some serious maintenance. These access connections do not give a good impression to our visitors and are rapidly deteriorating. As a correspondent pointed out recently, “it is obvious no current county councilor lives in this are.”
It is about time some of them drove to Koloa, turned down Poipu Road and drove all the way to Ala Kinoiki (bypass road) then right back on to Maluhia and thence back to the Kaumualii Highway.
We know there is a Poipu master plan somewhere and during the 24 years we have resided on the South Shore, the population has at least tripled with the same main roads still endeavoring to cope with this increase in traffic.
There are also subdivisions everywhere where major buildings of all types, from residences to condominiums, continually being constructed. A major concern, generating much skepticism, is that this situation will suffer the same fate as the Wailua corridor and Coco Palms problems and become not only a generational problem for the residents but handed on down to generations of councilors.
David Collison, Poipu
The question should be rerouted to Bernard Carvahlo. Oh wait, “he’s disappear off the face of the earth!” Have anyone see him lately? I didn’t think so! Remember the song, “Take the money and run,” sound about right.
Fake news …. where are your facts to this senseless accusation of your ? That’s like saying your a predator with me not having any knowledge or facts about you… how would you feel about that ?
There is plenty of money coming in for the roads……because we can’t bring in off-island, experienced, hard working individuals, we can only use the local clan, on island time, that can’t keep up with the requirements. “We must hire locals!!” What is the latest on Hanapepe bridge? It is going to take 5 years to cross a creek at a cost of $100 million???
Because the money sits, and is not spent on priority repairs, it is funneled off to low priority projects like beautifying Rice St. Do the easy stuff, and let the hard stuff for the next guy.