Hawaii247 videotaped yesterday’s Ane Keohokalole Highway construction milestone.
The ongoing Saddle Road brush fire has delayed the start of paving on the latest phase of the Saddle Road improvement project. Road and Highway Builders LLC originally planned to start paving later this week. However, this has slipped to next week Tuesday.
The upcoming Palani Road construction work (between Queen Kaahumanu and Henry/Palani Road intersection) won’t affect traffic flow in this area. Nan/CTS Earthmoving will be working off the roadway (constructing electrical conduits, etc). It won’t be until February 2011 when construction will likely cause traffic delays.
The TMT will be submitting their CDUA to the Mauna Kea Management Board for approval on September 1st, 2010. They are planning to submit the CDUA to the DLNR in early September if the MKMB approves the application. The CDUA process is expected to be completed within a year.
Big Island Chronicle had an interesting commentary which criticized Oceanic Time Warner Cable’s service. I hate defending Oceanic in this instance. However, there is a couple aspects of Hugh’s commentary that I need to clarify.
Wavecom/TW Telecom’s undersea fiber-optic cable was damaged near Maui on July 27 (Oceanic Time Warner Cable leases 70Gbps of bandwidth from TW Telecom to service Maui and the Big Island).
This caused a ripple effect statewide because Oceanic has no redundant circuits to prevent an outage. So, they had to reroute connections via Los Angeles back to Hawaii. This stop-gap measure was done to immediately restore service. However, the latter routing was providing less than optimal service. This wasn’t an acceptable long term solution since the Wavecom/TW Telecom’s fiber wouldn’t be repaired for five to seven weeks.
TW Telecom approached Hawaiian Telecom to lease additional bandwidth for Oceanic. However, Hawaiian Telcom had insufficient bandwidth to meet Oceanic’s needs. Oceanic then approached Sandwich Isles Communications. SIC is leasing 70Gbps of bandwidth to Oceanic until the TW Telecom/Wavecom fiber-optic cable is repaired. In addition, SIC has agreed to provide Oceanic redundant bandwidth to prevent a recurrence of this statewide outage.
Lastly, this is the latest update regarding Margaret Wille’s Lalamilo roadway easement reservation appeal.
August 31st, 2010 at 12:13 PM
I remember that day the internet went out. I went to kona and when I got back to Waikoloa it was back along with so much for me to do since I rely a lot in the internet. Ohhhh I hated Oceanic soooooo much and once I move I’m going with Hawaiian Telecom. There has been so many oceanic outages in Waikoloa atleast there hasn’t been any within the past month or so.