Blatant traffic violations hazard to us all
Going north on Queen Kaahumanu Highway I’m sitting here in my car just past the Kealakehe Police Station stoplight. We all in the left lane are creeping along, but I am sure we all are also watching a lot of cars zoom past in the right hand lane, obviously going 50-plus mph, and they are all cutting in line 30, 40, 50 cars ahead, some crossing over the solid line, many signaling and then just cutting, without waiting for safe entry space.
You can see the brake lights lighting up as these cuts take place. To try to prevent these cuts from taking place, almost everybody is tailgating like crazy, many are hugging the lane dividers.
My questions:
1) Is there a separate and much higher speed limit for the northbound right hand lane at Kealakehe?
2) Same situation at Queen Kaahumanu Highway below Lowe’s, speeding allowed in the right hand lane going south?
3) Same situation on Kuakini Highway at the double lane going south at Keauhou, speeding allowed in the right hand lane?
4) According to the driver’s license manual and the driver’s license test, crossing solid striped lines, white or yellow or double solids, are illegal traffic violations; and yet they occur all the time, all day, every day on Queen Kaahumanu Highway southbound at Palani Road, by those who turn right to go makai on Palani. They do not use the designated righ hand turn lane entry point, earlier to the north. They make late turns and create maximum traffic hazards for vehicles already in the turn lane, and for bikes in the bike lane.
Just wondering.
Alan Nakashima
Kailua-Kona