Roger,
We are just back from Hawai'i (lucky us) and I can’t help but send along these two pictures of (somewhat difficult to read) road signs posted along Rt. 11 & Rt. 160 on Hawai’i, the Big Island. 

The top sign is a bicycle symbol and the lower one reads SHARE THE ROAD! 

Thankfully, I did not see one accident even though the majority of people driving cars and riding the bikes were tourists who neither spoke nor read English! It was also amazing that the speed limit along the shared road where these pictures were taken was posted at 45 and 55 MPH!

It was quite amusing that the Hawaiian Islands (perm. pop. 1.2M) host more than 8M worldwide visitors on a rear round basis (it is always tourist season) and a few well placed signs was the solution adopted by the State of Hawaii in its common sense and economical approach to the commingling of autos and bikes. 

Could there be a lesson here for our little island of less than 250 year round residents and an 8 week tourist season? 

I wonder; is it too late to have had a design competition between Northeastern University’s undergraduate students and the State of Hawaii, DoT, Traffic & Civil Engineering Department?

Hope all is well,

Victor Colantonio