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
