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I have lived between Laniakea (Turtle) Beach and Waimea Bay for several decades. Having to pass through the “turtle traffic” two to four times a day, I have a pretty good basis to make an assessment.
The short-term solution is to have traffic police (public, private, off-duty cops, whatever) on site from 10 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. each day to control traffic and pedestrian jaywalkers in an orderly manner. This is done successfully all over the U.S. and in countless foreign lands. Why not here?
The cost would be minuscule when compared to the hundreds of hours of productive time lost each day, the cost of fuel, delayed buses, high blood pressure and the pollution from hundreds of cars waiting in stalled traffic each day between 10 a.m. and 5:30 p.m.
The Hawaii Visitors and Convention Bureau could fund this, or maybe the state Department of Transportation could fund traffic control officers before the state gets sued from the next maiming or death.
Mike Farrell
Haleiwa
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