I stopped for gas while out running some errands yesterday and discovered that regular has broken the $4.00 barrier … and then some! It’s $4.09 a gallon here on Maui and I ended up putting almost $90 worth into our Dodge pickup. Wow! A number of years ago, my wife and daughter and I were…
There are a great many reasons to support rail transportation, whether it’s Amtrak carrying passengers from one city to another or a transit system that moves people back and forth within one city. Opposition to transit comes mostly from habitual nay-sayers (“It’sa waste of money because nobody will ride it”) and from the selfish(“I don’t…
After years of wrangling and two agonizing near-misses, it looks like there will finally be a mass transit system for Honolulu on the Island of Oahu. To fund most of the $3.7 billion project, the State Legislature added a half-percent surcharge to Hawaii’s equivalent of a sales tax, increasing it from 4 to 4½ percent….