Re: Rail Transit
well, at the risk of getting attacked by anti-railers...
<sticks toe in, tests the waters>
... I wish that this proposed vote was not about forcing the public to make a yes or no decision, but rather a where and why decision.
We do need a light rail service. We do not need it everywhere that it has been proposed. Some of the rail service is easy and obvious to plan - such as a route from the airport to Waikiki, or Ewa side to Honolulu, or UH to...wherever people that attend UH live. It should not necessarily be imposed upon communities that will truly not need it, don't want it, and will always 'rail' against it. Such as Hawaii Kai, for example. Those people generally have 3 or more new cars in their driveways, and likely nothing short of the complete absence of fuel will get them out of their cars. Fine. The railway planners should just leave them out of the proposed loop. But there are many communities who will enjoy having rail as an option, and will use it regularly, and these people should have a say in where the rail will service.
So, instead of a final yes vs. no vote, I'd prefer if people could vote based on the merit of their individual communities' need and want for rail service. Yes on rail! No on rail anywhere and everywhere they feel like putting it!
well, at the risk of getting attacked by anti-railers...
<sticks toe in, tests the waters>
... I wish that this proposed vote was not about forcing the public to make a yes or no decision, but rather a where and why decision.
We do need a light rail service. We do not need it everywhere that it has been proposed. Some of the rail service is easy and obvious to plan - such as a route from the airport to Waikiki, or Ewa side to Honolulu, or UH to...wherever people that attend UH live. It should not necessarily be imposed upon communities that will truly not need it, don't want it, and will always 'rail' against it. Such as Hawaii Kai, for example. Those people generally have 3 or more new cars in their driveways, and likely nothing short of the complete absence of fuel will get them out of their cars. Fine. The railway planners should just leave them out of the proposed loop. But there are many communities who will enjoy having rail as an option, and will use it regularly, and these people should have a say in where the rail will service.
So, instead of a final yes vs. no vote, I'd prefer if people could vote based on the merit of their individual communities' need and want for rail service. Yes on rail! No on rail anywhere and everywhere they feel like putting it!
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