More Cars in Honolulu? Support Rail Transit

[dancingcat96828]

Initiating toll; managed lanes, flyovers, etc. is a LOT CHEAPER than building a rail.

[dancingcat96828]

Slick propaganda by our government to promote Rail at our expense with our tax dollars.

[Weesnauh]

I've never been to Hawai'i, but I can tell you that Denver Light Rail was a genius move and the bigger it gets the more people love it.

[rickysol75]

It's crucial that the city stick to their decision to get a new transit system asap!!!

[diozent]

Freeways aren't free either. 

[willberb]

Light rail will be the train to nowhere? The unions will have us over a barrel because it will be useless until finished, unlike if they started in China town and worked their way out to Kapolei. This way it will take traffic off the road as soon as the first two stations are connected. As planned its BACK ASSWARD.

[willberb]

I hope soon you can do another video celebrating the stopping of the light rail or at least the sensible redirection of construction to start at china town and work its way out to Kapolei.

[mailehao]

I dont believe they know how much it will be every year to operate. Rail will be a big black hole for money!!!!

[dancingcat96828]

@mailehao How about maintenance costs; grafitti removal; homeless hunkering down in the stations...

[billnyethe1742]

OK no, That is are skytrain and is a icon of the advancements Vancouver has made into a rapid transit technology honolulu needs there own idea!

[Jsouthwell2006]

wtf? that train is from vancouver, get ur own transit system ideas ass holes

[Xerxes356]

Hey that's the Skytrain from Vancouver, where im from. I went to Honolulu on vacation a while ago and the traffic was so bad there you guys really need rapid transit

[stjohnsknits]

i'm a tOURISTA , I LUV Rails

[Kaaawa2000]

Everybody is getting sucked in to talking about if rail is better than more roads, if people will use it etc...

The rail issue has NOTHING to do with that. What it has to do with is government corruption. Money rules, and that's what it's 100% about - money.

Look into who will make money if we make a rail system. Those people are pumping millions into the government.

The government of Hawaii was taken over by what used to be the mafia here.

[LHSleadtrumpet]

Exactly. Screw rail!! Think about the countryside. Us people in Wahiawa will only suffer because of rail.

Governmental CORRUPTION (Mr. Mayor...)

[LHSleadtrumpet]

I'm from Wahiawa. For those of us who live in the central and northern parts of Oahu, rail = money that the city wastes for no one's benefit. Plus, if you think about it, rail won't solve the traffic or pollution problems, and it would take YEARS to complete. Not to mention that the construction would cause even MORE traffic.

[jorobe]

i wonder if people are aware that 90% of Oahu's population travel by privately owned vehicles. 8% by public transportation. 2% walk or bike. now i dont have a pie chart but spending 4-6 billion dollars on 8% of the population seems a bit more impractical than spending 2-3 billion on an alternative ( like a HOTWAY, or another highway) that affects the majority of the people

[Snackay]

@jorobe The majority of the people driving their cars are stuck in traffic, breathing their own air pollution and making global warming worse. Plus nearly 40,000 Americans are killed in vehicle accidents every year.

[stacey675]

The rails...Im actually wondering will they be build over the the actual highway or different places over actual buildings and places?

[willberb]

It would be easier to support it,despite the inevitable doubling or trippling of the cost and time to complete it, if it actually were planned to go over the H1 and thus go to UH and other points in between. However, it will not. It will be an eyesore as well as an earsore. It will leave other areas sore too when the taxes hit the people who are even now just getting bye.

[willberb]

The cussing and insults here are probably just some pro rail people trying to emotionalize the issue.

Just like Mayor Muffi's comment about 7 foot Samoans always being picked on. That was laughable. But I wouldn't laugh at a 7 foot Samoan would you?

[willberb]

Not more cars. More express busses. Synchronized lights, HOT lanes, integrating UH with UH West Oahu and more bike lanes. Don't get railroaded. Remember how everyone said "we need a convention center"?

Well it sits empty 90% of the time. The railroaders don't even plan for this thing to go to UH.

[Mark96706]

I support Rail Transit. I live in Ewa Beach and therefore I understand that traffic can be really bad with more cars. My mom works at Hickam (Which is just across Pearl Harbor from Ewa Beach) but has to drive around Pearl Harbor like being in San Fran w/out the Golden Gate Bridge. Also, when she leaves in the morning, she gets stuck in traffic more in Ewa than on the H1. I personally think it's a waste of gas if just 1 passenger is in a car, adding on to congestion on the road.

[willberb]

If the traffic lights were synchronized on Kam highway she wouldn't need to get on the highway at all.

[Mark96706]

Everyone just needs to see the different perspectives of how rail transit can affect the lives of many other people such as students, laborers, professors, and more. Mine is of a student's point of view. It is time for Oahu to step up in transportation. Eventually, this island is going to need a mass transit system to transport the growing population of the Leeward district to town and back. This can bring the island closer without the long wait.

[Mark96706]

I hope to be going to UH Manoa soon but all I'm worried about is getting stuck in traffic. I believe many students and others, from where I live, would choose to take a rail system over driving and using up gas just to go to school/work/etc. and back. Rail will always be on schedule and convenient for the busy person having to be on time, everyday.

[StopRailNow]

To the commenters: ethnicity has nothing to do with transit.

To the video: The point of a HOT lane is not to deliver cars, but rather, express buses. The leftover space on a HOT lane can be leased to cars via toll. The price of the toll regulates the amount of cars on the lanes--keeping the BUSES moving at 55 miles an hour until they leave the system at any of ~5 exits. This way, buses never run below 55mph and can get from pearl city to hotel street in 22 minutes.

[kaleowao]

These pro-railers are on the take. Bottom line.

[willberb]

They are just frustrated by traffic. They have been told that the rail will be faster.

Even the pro rail people will admit that it will take almost an hour to go the lenght of the rail. Twenty miles, twenty stops and no time to accelerate before having to screech to another stop.

[willberb]

More specifically rail 48 min from end to end not even including bus transfers.

Just think about it logically instead of emotionally..

Also the cost per household will be thousands of dollars. If you are already having trouble making ends meet do you really want to add more weight on your back?

I know Mufie thinks hes being picked on because hes Samoan but really what kind of fool would pick on a 7 foot tall Samoan??

[Mark96706]

I understand what you mean about all the stops the rail may have to make. But I'm still wondering how express buses would work. Will there be more than one bus for each town (especially for Leeward towns) going back and forth to and from town?

Also, I think that people will only crowd onto buses during peak hours such as the morning and afternoon. I wouldn't want to crowd into small buses (and by small buses, I mean the longest bus vehicle here because it's always crowded in Ewa Beach.)

[Mark96706]

Unless it's like a "field trip" with many city buses waiting during peak hours waiting for the passengers heading to town, and once one bus is full, that one leaves and so on with another bus and so forth.

Besides, wouldn't we need a rail transit eventually? I mean everyone knows that Oahu is rapidly growing, so we might as well build ANOTHER alternative in transportation rather than just waiting until this island gets too crowded that public traffic would have to be transferred onto Bus lanes.

[Mark96706]

Oh and also, I would love to travel on a much more CONSISTENT mass transportation system...such as the rail transit system.

[uthinkimstoopid]

sub human fucks makes me sick, all they do is pretend to be hawaiian ,just cuz they re dark niggers and got no job, even sumo restler akebono said if it wasnt for sumo i couldve been a beach bum in hawaii. u fuckin bums

[uthinkimstoopid]

who are these people ? they are nothing, they are micro or filipino niggers pretending to be hawaiian and living in and under usa flag in hawaiii , holding a usa passport but calling us haloe ? so i call them NIGGERS ,bum piece of shits

[uthinkimstoopid]

kamueha then you go back to sounth samoa or whatever island ur from , ur not from hawaii, who the fuck are u callin people haole, u dumb ass, hawaii is a state and anyone can move and live there, fuckin bum

[uthinkimstoopid]

no more cars in honolulu,,  we must use monorails and electric operated transportations, people who are close to their work places must use bicycles or even walk ,

[budo316]

This train does not meet Kyoto Protocol standards, so I can't support it.

[kaumeheiwa]

brah i get one good idea for stoip traffic. stop haoles form moving here they take up to much space and they stink. keep hawaii, hawaii