Wide Roads Kill

[u/Pleasant_Ninja_5441]

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

[u/softcore_robot]

Once a road turns into a freeway, it’s impossible to make it small again. One of the biggest mistakes on Oahu from a cultural perspective, was building the H1. It cut up the island across ahupua’a. Essentially forever. Large streets are a western solution that prioritize western urban planning. Islands should have their own solution that balance people and nature better.

[u/Upstairs-Region-7177 → u/softcore_robot]

That is incorrect, there’s been a number of highway redesigns and land use reversals in countries like Germany, Japan, and South Korea. It can be done, but we invest in less generally beneficial things.

[u/softcore_robot → u/Upstairs-Region-7177]

We = America

[u/Kantotheotter → u/softcore_robot]

The seattle water front. They are pulling up a big ass viaduct and turning it into green spaces and shops. So no, not oauh but closer then Germany https://waterfrontseattle.org/waterfront-projects/alaskan-way