Wednesday, June 23, 2004
Does Mayor Kim Work at the Gas Station?
Hawaiian Mayors, Hot Air and Transit
Before the Hawaiian mayors spend too much money on terminal transit projects and waste too much time allowing traffic to outstrip highway supply, they should perhaps take a tour of the places where their vision works. It will need to be a world tour, because there are no examples in the United States. No US urban area has a transit system that provides automobile competitive mobility except for a small percentage of trips, all to the core or within the core. And, as for providing jobs near houses, I wonder if Mayor Kim works at any of the employment locations closest to his house --- say the local gas station or video rental store? Same problem everywhere. There are a whole lot of reasons people live a long way from work, and the lack of closeby work is not one of them.
Before the Hawaiian mayors spend too much money on terminal transit projects and waste too much time allowing traffic to outstrip highway supply, they should perhaps take a tour of the places where their vision works. It will need to be a world tour, because there are no examples in the United States. No US urban area has a transit system that provides automobile competitive mobility except for a small percentage of trips, all to the core or within the core. And, as for providing jobs near houses, I wonder if Mayor Kim works at any of the employment locations closest to his house --- say the local gas station or video rental store? Same problem everywhere. There are a whole lot of reasons people live a long way from work, and the lack of closeby work is not one of them.
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