Aloha kakou.
The local Sierra Club position on the Honolulu rail project has been updated by the "Honolulu Weekly' in this article published today:
http://honoluluweekly.com/feature/2012/07/beyond-rail/
...... Onipa'a.
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hi Andrew,
I've posted the following at that link:
The true land owners and the Konohiki's all along the route of the rail are opposed to the Rail system. Who are the true land owners? and some of the Konohiki? They/we are the direct descendants of Kamehameha who have been sued by the State of Hawaii in Court and the case will progress on to other courts as well......the State of Hawaii doesn't dare put this is the news....some of us are the land owners that the Attorney General's office, the State Capitol, the Iolani Palace, etc. sits on......I don't think that you'll print this because you haven't the "balls" to do so. Aloha. p.s. If you do print this, I give you credit for showing both sides of the true picture.
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Ever thought of the number of deaths that will occur due to the Rail System as well?
Opposition to the Rail continues from the true landowners, who is not the State of Hawaii, etc.
Also, have you ever thought that the future wars planned would utilize the Rail System? In other words folks, the Rail System is NOT meant for you or I..........
aloha.
http://www.honolulutransit.org/rail-system-guide/interactive-route-...
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Kirk Caldwell Compares Honolulu Rail to Landing on the Moon?
Photo by Mel Ah Ching
BY DANNY DE GRACIA II- During last night's mayoral debate, former Honolulu managing director Kirk Caldwell sarcastically asked retired Governor Ben Cayetano whether or not he would ask President Kennedy what his backup plan was in response to his challenge to go to the Moon. I think it's worth reminding the former managing director of a few things:
Funny Caldwell should mention going to the Moon, because the cost of a single Saturn V rocket launch was $185 million in 1969. By contrast Honolulu Rail is $5.3 billion. One could therefore say it is cheaper to go from the Earth to the Moon than from Kapolei to Manoa. (And for those of you wondering, the last Space Shuttle launch into orbit only cost $450 million.)
There is absolutely no comparison between an Apollo space capsule and Honolulu Rail. I mean, is this the best our elected officials can come up with? President Andrew Johnson rode on rail in 1869, while the NASA Apollo astronauts rode on a rocket in 1969. I was born in 1979 and I was told we'd have flying cars by now. In case anyone has forgotten, this is the 21st century. Rail? Really? Is that the best and most awe-inspiring technology that our politicians aspire to these days? If rail is the Apollo spaceship of 2012, our politicians either have a shrinking imagination or a such a low opinion of the average voter that they think someone would actually be inspired by that.
This being said, one can't help but concede that space travel and Honolulu Rail do have one thing in common: both have out of this world, astronomical costs to taxpayers. But it's time to come back to Earth. And contrary to what our special interest funded politicians say, rail is not a done deal. When politicians start saying "rail will not be stopped" or "it will take World War III to stop this" - and yet a majority of voters oppose the project - that ought to tell you we have a failure of democracy and its time for new elected officials. The Declaration of Independence tells us "Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish it."
Yes, Honolulu, you have a right to alter and abolish Honolulu Rail. In a free society, when the majority of the people demand a change, it's the job of their elected officials to make it happen. No excuses. Honolulu works for us, we do not work for Honolulu.
Now I'll leave all of you with this: Kirk Caldwell alluded to JFK's famous 1962 Rice University Moon speech and rather cheaply tried to make it sound like Ben Cayetano was standing in the way of progress. Yet, as a Texan living here in Hawaii I'd like to remind Kirk Caldwell that if he'd listened to JFK's entire speech, he would have remembered President Kennedy also told the people of Houston, "this country of the United States was not built by those who waited and rested and wished to look behind them. This country was conquered by those who moved forward, and so will space."
Steel on steel wheel rail is so yesterday. Kennedy's entire speech was about new technology, not antiquated technology invented 209 years ago. This is the space age. We deserve better engineering ... and better elected officials.
Aloha kakou.
E Amelia just love your "Railroad Crossing" poster!
This month marks the 122nd anniversary of the opening to the public of the Honolulu to Hoaeae line by the O'ahu Railway and Land Company, Hoaeae at the Northwest shore of Pearl Harbor was fifteen miles from Honolulu and this event took place in July 1890 (per the 1892 edition of Thrum's Almanac and Annual).
Thrum's Hawaiian Almanac is packed with information about the Hawaiian Kingdom:
http://guides.library.manoa.hawaii.edu/hawaiithrums
The registered owner of the 22 ton schooner "Ka Hae Hawaii" in 1892 was a guy called Lau Chong, meanwhile the Kingdom Postmaster for Kaneohe that year was a man called Kahuakaiko. There were six Norwegian females and six Norwegian males living in Lihue, Kauai according to the Kingdom census for 1890, and 227 Norwegians in total resident on the archipelago for that year..... Thrum's always comes up trumps!
A hui hou, Andrew.