Traffic management wasn’t Pro Bowl worthy

Surely, it didn’t have to be that bad. We’re talking about the bumper-to-bumper traffic heading into Aloha Stadium for Sunday’s Pro Bowl; some folks reported being stuck for up to four hours.

Pro Bowl happens once a year, and — no surprise! — it was set for Jan. 31. Much better planning on traffic management should’ve been imperative, perhaps via coning and personnel expediting flows through gates.

The jam even spurred a video posting on Youtube, as well as a mention on the the Seattle Seahawks’ website, seahawks.com, in its “Five Non-Football Things We Learned This Weekend at the 2016 Pro Bowl” post. At No. 1: “The Pro Bowl gameday experience is cool … The traffic is not.”

If we built the warehouse, they should come

We all deserve to vent our frustration over cases such as the Hilo Airport cargo warehouse. This is a state, remember, where various construction projects and upgrades languish for years on the to-do list — even when there’s funding available to do the work.

And yet here we have a facility, which cost $27.4 million to build, sitting empty since March because of lease negotiations getting hung up. Lost are tens of thousands of dollars in revenue. Hey, we’re flush, right? No better use for that money than just kiss it goodbye?