That’s a phrase you often hear in these islands and it’s more apt than ever in light of the violence that occurred the other night in Charlottesville. Of course we have racists here, but the fact is, being a racist in Hawaii is just not practical because everyone who lives here belongs to a racial…
Municipal transit systems have been around for a long time. The New York City subway system opened in 1868, but an elevated segment was actually operating five years before that. During my trans-Siberian train experience three years ago, I was surprised to find that several of the cities we visited in Siberia had extensive metro…
Back in the early 1970s, officials from the federal agency then known as the Urban Mass Transportation Administration came to Honolulu and pleaded with government officials to get their act together and approve the city’s proposed transit project. Furthermore, they were ready to provide 90 percent of the funding. The UMTA people understood what most…
Various Honolulu city administrations have been trying to get a transit system built in Hawaii’s capitol city since the mid-1970s. Twice the project failed by one vote on the Honolulu City Council, but a few years back it finally got the green light. That, of course, brought out the crazies and they have been relentlessly…