Lava between lanes bad idea
As I drove up near Costco Saturday, I realized that whoever is slowly building the highway expansion is putting small chunks of lava between the oncoming lanes.
Talk about a bad idea that will have to be redone soon and at added cost. How long do you think that rock will remain between the lanes and not in them? People, animals and vehicles will all, either intentionally or unintentionally, get some of that rock into the travel lanes causing flat tires and potential accidents.
Sure it looks good, but when the county starts to get lawsuits from those who get in accidents or have windshields broken from the loose rock, who will really care how nice it looks now?
Please, stop the work, get rid of the small lava rock between the opposing traffic lanes and potentially save some lives. Don’t enough people already die on that road each year?
Randy Richards
Kailua-Kona
Ancestors and the TMT
The time has come to speak the truth. The people who came here before knew that there was only a tiny amount of land compared to the vast ocean surrounding it, and thus felt like they lived on an oasis of land, surround by a giant desert of ocean.
Through this process, all the land became sacred. Land was life for the people. And because there was so little of it, they concluded it was best to utilize this land as much as possible, and one of the biggest sins one could commit became to not use the land for some purpose. In other words, to just leave it fallow, unless designated forbidden.
Times change and people change, and the people of today have the right to not follow in all the ways and methods of the ancient ones, if that is what they decide.
But, if the TMT telescope project had been presented to the ancestors of this island, I am convinced they would have asked the questions: “Is the land being used for some purpose at present?” As well as: “Is the land forbidden for some reason?”
And if the answer was no to both questions, I believe they would have allowed the project to go forward. “Ua Mau Ke Ea O Ka Aina I Ka Pono.”
Carl Merner
Holualoa
Not so fast on the name game
I have been a long time reader of your paper and enjoy the letters to the editor and the various opinions presented. It is all good food for thought if you agree or not with the idea presented.
I think Don Zero’s opinion is as valuable as any and if I were named Leningrad Elarionoff I would not be debasing other people’s given names.
Daisy McDuff
Kailua-Kona