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After DWR retirement, focused on the recurring issue of wildfire warning failures, an inexcusable consequence of officials' over-reliance on digital channels. Business consultant for 19 years before moving to California in 2012, then public information officer at CA Department of Water Resources during state's five-year drought and the Oroville Spillways emergency in February 2017. Authored books on The National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific ("Punchbowl" 1982) and on the decline of standard grammar in business and society ("Me and Him Are Killing English!" 2007). Launched, produced, hosted Hawaii Public Radio's weekly "Energy Futures" public affairs program 2009-10. Press secretary, Congressman Cec Heftel, Honolulu and Washington offices, then managed communications, spokesman, Hawaiian Electric Company during Hurricane Iwa and numerous island-wide power blackouts. Covered Honolulu city government at Honolulu Advertiser and KGMB-TV. Improvements to transit availability and reliability would serve all transportation system users, including minority and moderate- and low-income populations (emphasis added).Īfter five years on active duty as Army MI officer with duty stations in West Berlin, Germany and South Vietnam, reported/edited for newspapers and broadcast stations in Philadelphia, Chicago, Los Angeles, Honolulu. cities, further limiting access to Downtown by lower-income workers. In addition, Downtown median daily parking rates are the highest among U.S. These transit-dependent and lower-income workers lack a transportation choice that avoids the delay and schedule uncertainty currently experienced by TheBus. Many lower-income workers also rely on transit because of its affordability.
Delay caused by traffic congestion accounts for nearly one-third of the scheduled time for routes between Ewa and Waikiki. Transit-dependent households concentrated in the Pearl City, Waipahu, and Makakilo areas (Figure 1-9) rely on transit availability, such as TheBus, for access to jobs in the PUC Development Plan area.
Many lower-income and minority workers who commute to work in the PUC (Primary Urban Center) Development Plan area live in the corridor outside of the urban core. Here’s the final environmental impact statement’s description of the equity goal:Įquity is about the fair distribution of resources so that no group carries an unfair burden of the negative environmental, social, or economic impacts or receives an unfair share of benefits. HOT lanes fail the equity test by not serving those who don’t own cars beyond that obvious point, HOT lanes serve only those who can afford to pay the toll! And elevated busways that bypass communities along the route also fail to equitably serve all potential users. ********************************************ġ/12 UPDATE: Hawaii Gas Nation's CostliestĬontinuing Oahu’s heavy reliance on automobiles for commuting between the Second City and Honolulu is objectionable on many levels, including the equity issue. We’re concluding our New Year's review of Honolulu rail transit project goals today with goal #4 – to improve transportation equity.Įquity is a good filter to use when evaluating anti-railers’ alternatives to the rail project, such as High-Occupancy Toll (HOT) roads and elevated busways that lack stops or stations along the route.
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