UPDATE 6/11/12: DPW director David Goode advises we were incorrect about the situation, as this material was not suitable for for paving, and is generally used as fill by the Highways Division of his department. Therefore we are back at square one in trying to get some extension along this open corridor as a safer route for bicyclists going across No. Kihei.
UPDATE 6/7/12 Now you see it:
and then you don’t!
Within hours this afternoon, after waiting months for a segment of this path to be paved with the stockpiled material, it was waterer down & trucked away by the DOT. What happpened??
UPDATE: 4/11/12 County DPW Director David Goode advises KCA that his department has already acquired these paving materials from the Water Department for use where they are located. Now we await their use here to pave a small segment of the “people’s walking & bicycling path.”
UPDATE; Mahalo for the answer to this inquiry from Councilmember Couch. This paving material was placed at this location by the county Water Department after repairing a portion of SKR, as this was left over material. KCA has requested rather than Water incur the additional expense of hauling it away, an arrangement be made with Public Works Department to use it to pave a portion of this corridor of the Kihei “people’s path.” Stay tuned.
While KCA has requested that if the North South Collector Rd is not being extended for years, why not at least lay down a blacktop strip in sections as a rough bike path to extend the established one along Liloa behind Safeway? This week, we discovered these large mounds of paving material in the corridor just north of Waipuilani? Could this be what we think? Stay tuned.
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Is there ANYONE in government allowed to inform citizens? Sheesh! Why is everything so secret? Do we have to wait for surprise announcements after the fact? We have only lived here for two years but this is all so interesting.
Kinda like the SURPRISE outlet mall that our representative says is a done deal …
Good idea!
This section of dirt and washboard rock should have been finished years ago when we were all shown that wonderful plan of bike paths that never got built. I find it so amazing that in our beautiful walking and bike friendly weather we have no safe biking other than going to Kahului. I would love to feel I could bike to the stores, ride with my grandkids but only option is So Kihei Rd or the Hwy, but I value my life and theirs more than that.
Mahalo for the comment, Shirley. KCA continues to advocate for a walkable, bikeable community, and agrees with your conclusions. Our undestanding from DPW Director Goode is the new bike way which ends at Lipoa will be extended to the new park going southward, using funds in the current fiscal budget allocated for bike projects in Kihei ($150.K). KCA requested for at least double that amount in the new budget, which is being considered right now by County Council, and request citizens to push for approval.