#Puna Alternate Routes Study

On Thursday, the Hawai‘i County Council Communications, Reports and Council Oversight Committee listened to an update from Public Works Director Steve Pause on the progress of conducting the Puna Alternate Routes Study.

The goal of the study is to determine where other routes could be placed to help alleviate the district’s longstanding issues of traffic congestion and need for another evacuation route when natural disasters strike, such as eruptions and lava flows, and better access for emergency response.

The goal of the study and any future infrastructure, which is not a part of the proposed funding measure, is to find where other roadways could be placed in the district to help alleviate the longstanding issue of traffic congestion and increase capacity for evacuation in the event of a natural disaster and emergency response.