Letters to the Editor - Letters

[yeah wrong]

Yeah wrote:

<quoted text>So if you're boss said you have to take a 10% py cut, but you only need to work once a week,that's a pay cut to you?
Budget cutting measures does not necessarily equate to a pay cut if you're paid hourly.

i'm not sure about a pay "cut", per se, but it would seem to be at least a reduction in pay. 10% less pay, by definition, is 10% less pay - whether you work one day or all five.

[Time 4 rail]

I was glad to see that Hawaii's best and brightest young people are for rail, particularly a Yalie. The sooner we get rail, the better!

[Better commutes]

Interesting that the anti-rail letter from John Brizdle selectively uses outdated figures from a 2006 report when the most recent rail stats are in the Draft environmental impact statement. Brizdle also misses the mark about mobility. Transportation infrastructure is all about moving people & rail does that w/o putting more cars on the road. It's the only transpo that can accomplish that goal.

I voted for rail and I'm glad I did. We needed it back in the 1990s and we need rail even more badly now

[alice]

rail will be a cause for chaos for many eyars to come.

[Rail is Good]

alice wrote:

rail will be a cause for chaos for many eyars to come.

Alice, please shut up...you blog the stupidest things! Rail will be good for Hawaii. If you think the H-1 is horrible during rush hour, it's even bad on the weekends too! Do you think they're going to make H-1 wider? How is that going to happen? There's just too many cars in Hawaii. Should have built rail in the '80s. Too much red tape in Hawaii to do business here. That and people are just too stupid and Hawaii is just to slow. Accept changes and move on with your life. The world is not getting smaller!

[alice]

East side traffic is much lighter. I live in my dorm and walk to class. Don't need the rail

West side traffic is lighter as people leave the state. Wait until the Hawaiian bones show up, law suits follow, cost overruns mount, and corruption and theft are revealed. It will be a nightmare that wil;l plague this city for years to come.

[We need rail]

alice wrote:

East side traffic is much lighter. I live in my dorm and walk to class. Don't need the rail

Unfortunately, 99% of the population isn't lucky enough to live in a dorm and walk to class. We have to work to pay the bills. that means a commute that gets longer and longer each year. We need the rail system to reduce the congestion as well as give us an option that travels above the crowded streets.

I've ridden the elevated rail systems in Japan and Thailand. they are fast, modern and efficient. We deserve the same in Honolulu.

[Rail Pandemic]

We need rail wrote:

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We need the rail system to reduce the congestion as well as give us an option that travels above the crowded streets.
I've ridden the elevated rail systems in Japan and Thailand. they are fast, modern and efficient. We deserve the same in Honolulu.

BuildRailNow wrote wrote:

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<quoted text> So BACK TO RAIL: Give us one reason -- JUST ONE REASON -- rail won't be good for Oahu.

The $5.5 BILLION dollar rail system built as an "option and new choice" for the current Oahu bus ridership base of only 6% in total WILL NOT reduce traffic congestion for the 90% on this island who prefer the freedom and primary option of driving a car on our roads, over riding on DaBus transit.

All other basic island infrastructure has been severely neglected for decades and the city admin must refocus the shady priorities of overspending on unnecessary pet projects such as the multi-billion dollar rail.

Oahu taxpayers can't afford a $5.5 billion dollar 20-mile train to nowhere.

Additional operations costs for the elevated rail will cause an increase in property taxes to all Oahu residents.
(yearly bus operation costs are currently at a $180 million every year for just that transit system)

This multi-billion dollar train will be a new public transit system built only for the current Oahu bus ridership base and users who do not drive a car. Oahu only has a 6% islandwide bus ridership base of the total island population.

The 2006 AA rail report and 2008 DEIS rail report both state that with the multi-billion dollar rail, the public transit ridership total will ONLY be 7% on Oahu in year 2030!

(... this is ONLY a 1% increase in public transit ridership on Oahu after spending $5.5 billion on heavy rail ????)

[alice]

alice wrote:

East side traffic is much lighter. I live in my dorm and walk to class. Don't need the rail
West side traffic is lighter as people leave the state. Wait until the Hawaiian bones show up, law suits follow, cost overruns mount, and corruption and theft are revealed. It will be a nightmare that wil;l plague this city for years to come.

true..and est siders are leaving hawaii so traffic will be lighter anyway...please save us this nightmare and use buses.

[Marboro]

Tyler Dos Santos-Tam: Did you receive permission from Yale University to use her name in vain?

[Beijixiong]

"At $10,000 per citizen per year and 304 million people, that would be just over $30.4 billion." New Math!