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BY PANOS PREVEDOUROS PHD - The recent article "For Transit Agencies, Terrorists Are Moving Targets" in the magazine of the New Jersey Transportation Planning Authority raises many critical issues relating to the security of urban rail systems. Security experts and transit officials alike all but guarantee that some intentional tragedy will, sooner or later, befall [...]
BY PANOS PREVEDOUROS PHD - In 2004, I started keeping tabs on major events of the infamous Honolulu Rail. This link takes you to the 2004 to 2010 highlights. The 2011 highlights are below. January 18: FTA issues Record of Decision. The ROD allows the city to take these actions if it so chooses (but read the [...]
BY BOBBIE AND CLIFF SLATER - I’m sure you have heard that the city has announced that they have received permission to enter “Final Design”, and the city is alluding to a more optimistic outlook for federal funding. The Honolulu Star Advertiser headline was,“Rail project cleared for federal funding.” However, that headline was plain wrong. You [...]
BY WALTER HEEN, BENJAMIN CAYETANO, CLIFF SLATER AND RANDALL ROTH - The City & County of Honolulu claims that construction of the proposed elevated heavy-rail system would increase the number of jobs on Oahu, somewhere between 5,000 during each year of construction to a high of 17,270 in the so-called peak year. This brings to mind Mark Twain's [...]
BY PANOS PREVEDOUROS PHD - Energy and Honolulu rail is an angle that I did not have time to look at in detail, until last week when my students did some energy analysis of Honolulu’s proposed rail. They discovered this June 2008 article by Sean Hao: Rail's use of energy subject of debate in the Honolulu Advertiser. Of [...]
Electric cars better for the environment than rails: We are grateful to long-time member of Honolulutraffic.com, Alan S. Lloyd, formerly of Hawai‘ian Electric for the following input on energy issues as they relate to urban transportation. • Hawaiian electricity load peaks in the early morning around 6:30 AM with its least requirements between midnight and [...]
BY CLIFF SLATER - The City & County of Honolulu's TheBus is going to be faster than TheTrain? Let's review the City's projected travel time by rail from East Kapolei to Ala Moana Center: The Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) tells us in the table to the left that future rail commuters leaving East Kapolei [...]
BY PANOS PREVEDOUROS PHD - “Some years back a Greek finance minister, fed up with his country's waste and extravagance claimed that he could save money by shutting down the national railway and driving around its passengers in taxis.” The Economist, July 2, 2011, p.8. Too bad he didn't execute his plan for the closure of [...]
BY PANOS PREVEDOUROS PHD - UCLA Urban Planning Professor Brian Taylor sent me this brief but informative article about California's proposed High Speed Rail: High Speed Rail and Social Equity It contains a lot of interesting points and many of them such as construction cost, jobs, "green" transportation and equity apply to Honolulu's proposed heavy [...]
Editor's note: The group Honolulutraffic.com released this statement today: CLAIM 1. ITS ABOUT POLITICS. Rail has nothing to do with traffic. It's about money for land owners, developers, contractors, politicians and union leaders. It’s THEIR train. We Verify: Check the campaign contributions to politicians at the Campaign Spending Commission website, https://nc.csc.hawaii.gov/CFSPublic/ReportList.php. In particular, check former [...]
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