It’s difficult to argue that Oahu does not have a transportation problem. Highways and streets are jammed with traffic. The Bus system, as good as it is, tends to favor those who can’t afford their own vehicle. Prosperity has a price and we see it every day in congested traffic.
City officials are pushing a rail mass transit system that features fewer stops, fewer destinations, lower capacity, and substantially greater cost than The Bus.
What’s wrong with that picture?
Politicians have devoted hundreds of millions of dollars to the HART project already, with a few billion dollars more lined up and ready to be doled out for construction and management of a mass transit system that will do less than the current system.
Now, former Governor and Senate candidate Linda Lingle, and former Governor and mayoral candidate Ben Cayetano are on record opposing the rail project. Cayetano has vowed to shut it down.
The question many taxpayers may be asking is, “Can we get our money back?” If Hawaii’s politicians were held responsible for the money they spend, maybe they wouldn’t spend as much.
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