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As the editorial itself says, “They argued that the city has created the false impression that rail will reduce the current level of traffic congestion,”Ĭity officials talked about relieving traffic and reducing traffic congestion without once mentioning that the result of all the spending is that traffic would get worse.Ĭivil Beat omits to mention that when we had written in 2008 that, “future traffic congestion will be worse with rail than it is today,” City Transportation Director Wayne Yoshioka accused us first of lying about, later misrepresenting, the traffic situation. They then go on to say that the City never said traffic would improve from current levels.īut we did not say that. “But did the city's leaders make the case for rail as the best way to lower congestion from today's levels? Actually, no.”Ĭivil Beat correctly says that we argue that the city has created the false impression that rail will reduce the current level of traffic congestion. In this editorial Civil Beat concludes the following, That is laughable it was the most biased editorial ever to appear in Hawai‘i on the rail issue.

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You can check these data for ridershipĬivil Beat wins the SPJ Award for (bias?):Ĭivil Beat yesterday won an award from the Society of Professional Journalists for best editorial titled, “ Did City Mislead Public About Rail's Impact on Congestion? The last annual data we have is 2011 and combined public transportation ridership was 79.9 million - a decline of 12.5 percent while enjoying a 7.5 percent increase in population 2000-2010. Houston opened its rail line on Januhaving had combined public transportation ridership (excluding Handi-Van type) in 2003 of 91.4 million prior to opening. We could not just tear it down because a) it would be an expensive process, and b) we would be legally required to return all the federal funding

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That is because, a) we would not be able to sell it unless we were to guarantee the buyer’s future losses plus some profit to make it worth their while. We will not be able to get out from under it. If we build rail we would find that we are wedded to rail forever no matter how high the subsidies climb and how low the ridership gets.