52 thoughts on “Kauai Traffic Gridlock: Dubious New Data Intelligence Announced”
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Monorail. Move people above the traffic. Eliminate the need to use driver-only vehicles to reach work, school, and appointments on a daily basis between main population centers. Achieves similar goals to buses without being trapped in gridlock. Runs on electric power instead of fossil fuel.
Aloha, put 10 Kauaians who live anywhere on the Eastside or North Shore and you’ll probably get a lot of good ideas(who hasn’t been stuck in the KC thinking if only they would,,,) at a lot cheaper price than some off island consultant. I have a couple:
Encourage through signage an “Aloha” merge system at our very busy, esp school letting out time, Kapaa skatepark roundabout For destination locations in Lihue like Costco, Home Depot, any public school and encourage ride sharing through the institutions. If you could eliminate even 10-20% of the cars parked at Costco?
Something needs to be done but here on Kaua’i we’ve been staring at the ruins of Coco Palms for quite a while now. Us and the rest of the people who visit our beautiful island
Thanks for the suggestions. We like the idea of ride-sharing and would be happy to take someone along to Costco or the airport or ride with them. The concept feels well suited to Kauai’s demeanor.
On the island of Capri only residents of Capri can drive,this includes all other Italian citizens. Transportation is readily available by private car service or taxis,it is not cheap but it is high quality -there is also a local bus service
Recently had to travel from Princeville to Lihue for early, 730, DMV business. Traffic was backed up in spite of contraflow being in effect. There were Zero tourist vehicles on road at that time. Just folks going to work. Talked to a shuttle driver a while back about traffic and she observed that there has been talk about widening choke point routes for thirty years.
Hawaii, get over your selves, quit blaming visitors, who make your economy survivable,for all of your procrastination and neglect of infrastructure and fix things for everyone. As with most problems in the islands, these are self inflicted and made worse due to incompetent governing.
And will you please tow away the abandoned cars along the highways and clean the park restro
It was stupid 15 years ago it is stupid today. Negligence solves nothing. To sit and complain Daily and do nothing is as simple as it gets,…. just stupid
As someone who has been coming to Kauai since 1980 I see the increase but not much infrastructure to keep up with growth. I think a shuttle from airport to all the timeshares, hotels, etc. would be great. We only rent a car because there is no way to get back and
forth to the airport. Having cars available by day only would be awesome! Our car sits in the garage most of the time we are here. I know Hyatt did rent by the day before covid.
Having more car rental hubs is a great idea also.
On every island we need to start really questioning How and WHY do all these thousands of cars keep coming here?! We can’t stop visitors, but we Can stop these vehicles… why is everyone acting like cars Have To continuously keep arriving, fleet after fleet, every year?
Look at the shuttle bus systems: every full bus takes 10-12 cars off the road, but same number of people, just less vehicles.
We’re islands and need to set borders and boundaries and limits, not because of politics, just because of resources.
If vehicles keep flooding the islands, there’s no ‘management’ trick to manipulate the system to work as if there’s less vehicles.
Monorail. Move people above the traffic. Eliminate the need to use driver-only vehicles to reach work, school, and appointments on a daily basis between main population centers. Achieves similar goals to buses without being trapped in gridlock. Runs on electric power instead of fossil fuel.
Just like on Oahu!!!
LOL
That’s more of a Shelbyville idea.
How about some passing lane sections on north shore. Could be between Kealia and Anahola and Moloa’a areas. This could ease traffic backups.
Aloha, put 10 Kauaians who live anywhere on the Eastside or North Shore and you’ll probably get a lot of good ideas(who hasn’t been stuck in the KC thinking if only they would,,,) at a lot cheaper price than some off island consultant. I have a couple:
Encourage through signage an “Aloha” merge system at our very busy, esp school letting out time, Kapaa skatepark roundabout For destination locations in Lihue like Costco, Home Depot, any public school and encourage ride sharing through the institutions. If you could eliminate even 10-20% of the cars parked at Costco?
Something needs to be done but here on Kaua’i we’ve been staring at the ruins of Coco Palms for quite a while now. Us and the rest of the people who visit our beautiful island
Hi Kauaidoug.
Thanks for the suggestions. We like the idea of ride-sharing and would be happy to take someone along to Costco or the airport or ride with them. The concept feels well suited to Kauai’s demeanor.
Aloha.
On the island of Capri only residents of Capri can drive,this includes all other Italian citizens. Transportation is readily available by private car service or taxis,it is not cheap but it is high quality -there is also a local bus service
Recently had to travel from Princeville to Lihue for early, 730, DMV business. Traffic was backed up in spite of contraflow being in effect. There were Zero tourist vehicles on road at that time. Just folks going to work. Talked to a shuttle driver a while back about traffic and she observed that there has been talk about widening choke point routes for thirty years.
Hawaii, get over your selves, quit blaming visitors, who make your economy survivable,for all of your procrastination and neglect of infrastructure and fix things for everyone. As with most problems in the islands, these are self inflicted and made worse due to incompetent governing.
And will you please tow away the abandoned cars along the highways and clean the park restro
Is all you people do is complain about mediocretraffic congestion?
It was stupid 15 years ago it is stupid today. Negligence solves nothing. To sit and complain Daily and do nothing is as simple as it gets,…. just stupid
As someone who has been coming to Kauai since 1980 I see the increase but not much infrastructure to keep up with growth. I think a shuttle from airport to all the timeshares, hotels, etc. would be great. We only rent a car because there is no way to get back and
forth to the airport. Having cars available by day only would be awesome! Our car sits in the garage most of the time we are here. I know Hyatt did rent by the day before covid.
Having more car rental hubs is a great idea also.
Fewer tourists is the only solution,however that is achieved
On every island we need to start really questioning How and WHY do all these thousands of cars keep coming here?! We can’t stop visitors, but we Can stop these vehicles… why is everyone acting like cars Have To continuously keep arriving, fleet after fleet, every year?
Look at the shuttle bus systems: every full bus takes 10-12 cars off the road, but same number of people, just less vehicles.
We’re islands and need to set borders and boundaries and limits, not because of politics, just because of resources.
If vehicles keep flooding the islands, there’s no ‘management’ trick to manipulate the system to work as if there’s less vehicles.
Well said.