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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 [...]
BY PANOS PREVEDOUROS PHD - An exorbitantly costly rapid transit heavy rail project has been proposed for the small Hawaiian island of Oahu, where the leading metropolis, Honolulu, ranks 53rd in population among U.S. cities, with less than 500,000 people. If the project moves forward it will be the world's only elevated heavy rail in [...]
Complaint Against Honolulu Rail Filed in Federal Court On Thursday, we filed our complaint against the U.S. Secretary of Transportation, various executives of the Federal Transit Administration, and the City Transportation Director. Plaintiffs are Honolulutraffic.com, former Hawaii Governor Benjamin J. Cayetano, the Small Business Hawaii Entrepreneurial Education Foundation, Judge Walter Heen, former chair of the [...]
BY MALIA ZIMMERMAN - Powerful forces were aligned in Hawaii leading up to the 2008 general election when then Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann used between $2.5 million and $4 million from the city taxpayers, $3 million from his campaign and the influence and money from pro-rail businesses, unions and elected officials to win the public [...]
BY HONOLULUTRAFFIC.COM - First, if you did not catch the Star Advertiser's news today, please read it. You would think from that the City was just about to begin construction of the rail line. Nothing could be further from the truth. This morning one of our members called worried that construction was about to start. [...]
BY HONOLULUTRAFFIC.COM - Absolutely no one in the media, from blogs, online news sources, TV stations to the Star-Advertiser, covered the confirmation of the City's DOT director, Wayne Yoshioka, adequately. For example, no one covered the "misrepresentations" of which Yoshioka was accused, No one asked Cliff Slater why he was saying he was slandered and what [...]
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