Dangerous U-turns
I travel up Kahakai Boulevard to Highway 130 five days per week.
At least once a week, I am behind a driver traveling on 130 toward the roundabout who thinks it is OK to stop on the highway and make a U-turn around the delineators to get either to Woodlands Center or to the transfer station.
Seems going though the roundabout is too much trouble.
I have seen cars having to jam on their brakes to avoid hitting these lazy drivers. Traffic is merging onto 130 from Kahakai, and these illegal U-turns make it especially dangerous.
Maybe we need a cement barricade that would make it more difficult to make illegal U-turns. When the new Puna Kai shopping center opens, this problem could become a lot worse.
Linda Heintz
Pahoa
Better horse food
I’m not sure, but the Waipio Valley horses might have bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease.
Cows get similar symptoms and die when eating feed containing central nervous system parts (brain and spinal cord) from recycled dead cattle.
Please inform the horse caretakers to change the feed immediately and use Purina Horse Chow or some other nutritionally complete and safe food.
Have them eat the same food the neighboring trail company horses are eating, as they are disease free.
Amy Brown
Honolulu