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Meet the authors of ‘Thinking about Traffic in West Maui’

By Staff | Sep 23, 2022

Edited by Bianca K. Isaki and Lance D. Collins, contributors to “Thinking about Traffic in West Maui” include Lauren Armstrong, Collins, Dawn Hegger-Nordblom (above), Isaki, Albert Perez, Ryan Tam, Benjamin Treviño, Victoria Larson Treviño, Mason M. Yamaki and Matthew Thayer.

LAHAINA — Lahaina Public Library and North Beach West Maui Benefit Fund invite you to meet local authors Dawn Hegger-Nordblom, Albert Perez and Mason Yamaki on Saturday, Sept. 24, from 2 to 3:30 p.m. at the library located at 680 Wharf St. in Lahaina.

The three authors will discuss chapters from “Thinking about Traffic in West Maui,” a book published by the North Beach West Maui Benefit Fund.

West Maui’s longtime residents, tourists and day workers alike have spent hours sitting in their cars, frustrated, as they ask the ubiquitous modern-day question: “Why can’t they do something about this traffic?”

“Thinking about Traffic in West Maui” explores possibilities for solving this very complex and mundane problem by compiling thought experiments from experts in planning, transportation, engineering, community organizing and law.

Each author addresses a community-originated proposal for a solution to West Maui’s traffic woes: encouraging more people to use bicycles, widening roads on an alternate route, tunneling a new road through the mountains, implementing rideshare carpooling applications, managing the retreat of coastal roads, and constructing a ground-level light-rail system from Napili to Kahului Airport.

According to the North Beach West Maui Benefit Fund, “Readers will appreciate the patient attention to practical details alongside informed-analyses of the economic and technological landscapes in which they are nested.”

A Q & A session and book signing will follow the authors’ presentation.

This free informational talk-story is part of a series focusing on community-oriented solutions to issues — water management, traffic congestion, over-tourism, housing and other struggles — confronting West Maui today.

For more information, visit librarieshawaii.org/events.