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In addition to "budding entrepreneur", I've been an Air Force weather forecaster since 1989. I currently live in Hawaii with my wife Ana and our kids. I run this as kind of a hybrid personal/business blog. Feel free to poke around. I hope you enjoy what you find.
Fort Weaver Road Rage
Posted by todd in Living in Hawaii
I’m a pretty calm guy. I really never used to get too upset when I’m driving. Until I moved to Iroquois Point, all the way at the end of Ewa Beach.
Fort Weaver Road would give a Saint Road Rage.
I live 16 miles from Wheeler Army Airfield, where I work. It takes me anywhere between 30 and 45 minutes to get to work in the morning (I leave my house around 6:30am). In the afternoon (I leave work at 4:30pm) it’s a good day if I make it home in 45 minutes … right around 1 hour is much more normal.
There’s a bottle neck at the top of the road, near the Hospital. It can sometimes take 15 or 20 minutes to travel about a mile, at the wrong time of day.
One thing that’s unique about driving on Ft. Weaver road (and Hawaii in general) is that you usually move faster through traffic if you stay as far to the Right as you can. This totally counterintuitive. The first week or so that I was driving home, I did what I thought was normal, and got in the far left lane … which increase my drive time by at least 10 minutes.
Now, as soon as I come over the Farrington Highway overpass, I get as far to the right as possible.
Over time, I’ve found a few good radio stations that keep me interested on the long drive home. This has helped a bit. And truth be told, I don’t really get mad at the other drivers. But …
I have absolutely no love for Gentry homes (who’ve built a couple thousand new houses in Ewa Beach over the past few years), and the politicians who approved all this building without first making sure we had the infrastructure to support it.
Oh well, I can this is just a little more of the price we pay for Living in Paradise.
Keep havin FuN!
Todd
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By Shawn on January 16th, 2008 at 1:13 am
That makes no sense! Why is the normal “hammer lane” the slow lane in Hawaii?
I work 31 miles from home and it take me a good 45 minutes to get there, but then again I drive straight through Evansville instead of taking the I-164 bypass.
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By todd on January 16th, 2008 at 2:33 am
I have no idea why the left lane always seems to go slower here. There’s definitely an “art” to driving on Hawaii roads during rush hour. Knowing at what point to change from the right to left lane, and vise versa can easily shave up to 10 minutes off a trip.
I think I’ve only driven through Evansville once or Twice. I was stationed at Scott AFB IL (near St Louis) a couple of years ago. Most of my trips west took me north on 70 through Indy.
There’s no such thing as a “long trip” distance wise, here in Hawaii. But the flip side is, you can easily go weeks without ever breaking 60 mph.
By Chris on July 24th, 2008 at 9:42 am
I bought a house in Ewa in 2005 after moving to Hawaii. I wish i had done my research. The widening of Fort Weaver will be fruitless with 900+ homes slated to go up by developer Haseko. I’m selling a home in softening market and it is a pain in the butt, but I’m moving out of Ewa.
By Jane Frost on August 19th, 2008 at 5:10 pm
Hi Todd,
I lived in Ewa Beach for 9 months this year. The traffic drove me crazy.
I worked in Kapolei, so I would take the back road by the water treatment
plant in and out of Ewa. I would drive to Wakiki, and would drive all the
way to Kapolei and take the road back around by the water treatment plant
everytime. I couldn’t cope with Fort Weaver Road. I was on it twice when
I first arrived, and found out about the back road, and never took Weaver
again. It is a farther drive to Kapolei, but it saved my sanity, and blood
pressure. I can’t remember the name of the street. I just had an interview
for a school baker there at Iroquois School. How is the area? I had never
been to the point. You are right, the whole planning of the communtiy for
Ewa Gentry Homes is a big mess. Fort Weaver is a joke!! Hope they finish it
soon. I feel sorry for the people who bought a home in that area.
Jane
By S Albrecht on August 21st, 2008 at 4:33 am
Road rage…yeah, I guess I never thought of that. I work at Pearl Harbor and live in Ewa by Gentry. Each day my commute takes me 1-1.5 hours, to drive 10-20 miles!!!! I just moved here 3 months ago from Iowa and this has been a shock to my system. In an effort to keep moving and not burn gas just sitting there, I had out through Kapolei and pick up the H1 there. I just dont get it…
By todd on August 21st, 2008 at 4:43 am
@Jane - lol, you sound like my wife. She goes through Kapolei almost all the time too.
@Sarah - Living in Eva by Gentry, you really might want to look into just driving over here to Iroquois Point and getting the grey boat across to Pearl Harbor. (Linked above under trackbacks)
Todd
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