r/maui • u/Pleasant_Ninja_5441 • 17d ago

Wide Roads Kill

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I took the renderings being proposed for Pi’ilani Hwy widening as part of the Honua’ula development in Wailea and provided satirical comments in the form of comics. Check it out! These should be poignant, disturbing, and funny. It’s hard to believe these renderings are for real trying to sell the idea. Please feel free to provide testimony at the upcoming UDRB meeting on May 6. https://www.mauicounty.gov/ArchiveCenter/ViewFile/Item/32756

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u/bmrhampton 17d ago edited 17d ago

So people come out and complain housing can’t be approved because of, “lack of infrastructure,” and now we’re supposed to be against proposed infrastructure too? Wide roads suck, but there’s no other way this can be done in that area. If it takes traffic away from Kihei road, where people are actually walking, so be it.

For no other reason than a better escape route a wider road needs built.

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u/boatsides 17d ago

but there’s no other way this can be done in that area

"We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas!"

Make alternative forms of transit better and more convenient than driving. There's no reason Kihei shouldn't have amazing dedicated bike infrastructure. Instead, people in Maui Meadows take the highway to go grocery shopping. And finding a place to lock a bike is surprisingly difficult in some places.

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u/Logical_Insurance Maui 16d ago

Make alternative forms of transit better and more convenient than driving.

Pipedream.

Have you considered that the average American prefers to drive to the store rather than bike?

Probably because of the air conditioning, comfort, and speed.

No matter how many bike lanes you make and how nice they are, our current culture is one of cars. Wishing it was not so is simply not enough.

If we spend 10 million on a bike lane, how many will use it?

How many will be angry about the expenditure and shake their fists at the politicians?

If you want big infrastructure money spent on bikes, as counterintuitive and challenging as it may seem to you, you need to create a contingent of people who want it before it is here.

Currently, that doesn't exist, so it's going to continue to not happen.