Mayor expects jobs with transit plan

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dudealohajoe wrote:

R u Muffi's cousin?

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Build Rail Now wrote:

Who are the well known opponents who spent $20k to try to kill the project? Is it the taxi and tour bus companies?

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Stop Rail Disavow wrote:

I've signed many a petition in my day but I would feel shame to get near the mass transit killer that is mentioned above...may they become enlightened to the wrongness of their position.
It is long past due that we have a grade separated mass transit system along the primary corridor of our city.
Raising fuel costs and issues such as vog and other pollution demand that we move forward with better ways than the stupid HOV reversible expressways, telecommuting, traffic light retiming or reopening freeways faster after accidents, that is the more or less idiot measures they propose.

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West Oahu Taxpayer wrote:

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The major reason for mass transit is to provide traffic relief on H-1 which Rail will never provide before, during and after Rail is completed.
The traffic choke points are between Pearl City-Pearl Harbor and Middle Street-Downtown Honolulu.
Question: Why is the mayor insisting that the first Rail Segment be from Kapolei to Leeward Community college which won't be completed until the year 2015 which is in a location where there are zero homes and zero commuters?
Question: Shouldn't the mayor build the first Rail segment from Middle street to downtown Honolulu and the second Rail segment from Pearl City to Middle Street?
The Express Busway will remove the two choke points by building a separate, elevated busway from Pearl City to downtown Honolulu.
The Express Busway is a system where a commuter gets on the morning express buses from all major community Bus Transit Centers at Waianae/Makaha, Kapolei/Kalaeloa, Makakilo, Mililani, Haleiwa, Waipahu, Waipio, Pearl City, Aiea, plus 4 to 10 other centers) destined for his/her destination at Pearl Harbor,/Hickam, Airport, Kalihi, Downtown Honolulu and beyond to U.H. Manoa or Ala Moana or Waikiki without transferring even once.
The Express Busway will cost about $800 million.(Tampa built a similar 10 mile Express Busway for $320 million). The Rail will cost $9.0 Billion due to inflation over the 15 years it will take to build the Rail.
Again, Rail not provide Traffic relief!

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Chi wa wa wrote:

I'm signing the petition when it arrives. I hope others will do the same. Stop mufi now...

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West Oahu Taxpayer wrote:

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The major reason for mass transit is to provide traffic relief on H-1 which Rail will never provide before, during and after Rail is completed.
Again, Rail not provide Traffic relief!

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Local Afar wrote:

"We've been eyeing this project for about 10 years now," said James Fea, vice president of Systra USA, a New Jersey-based company that builds transit systems. "It's the talk of the industry. Everyone wants a piece of it."
After years of planning and political maneuvering, outside businesses and profiteers are finally in position to buy their piece of Hawaii and you are all going to pay dearly for it. Hanneman-Parson's idiotic 5 billion dollar elevated steel rail gamble won't stop people's "love affair" with cars. What a joke! The project isn't designed to really reduce traffic congestion. It is designed to raise taxes, sprawl cheesy new suburbs across the western plains and create profits for investors and developers. Outsiders will flock in to fill most of the jobs and take most of the profits. Benefits to the local economy and workers will be small and short lived. It's all happening fast, and Hawaii will be too late smart.