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Mufi and Duke discuss traffic in da pepah;
Mufi sez:
Traffic; its the no 1 complaint... the problem is obvious; tooo many cars on the road.
da hell does this mean?
Why doesn't he say:
the CAUSE and remedy is obvious:
Overpopulation of a small city.
TOO many 35 story condo buildings being erected in a small area.
here's the problem which is obvious to, well, obviously too few people;
Polititians, journalists, all, when they discuss this subject:
resemble a deaf dumb blind person in a drunken stupor : with a blindfold on. wobbling around, grasping at straws.
EVERYone sez;
well we gotta add more lanes,
or we gotta do lite rail.
or Bus rapid transit system should be overhauled.
(now THERE is an absurdity if I ever heard one:
"bus RAPID transit."
I can get from point a to point b faster on a skateboard than on the bus. NOTHING rapid about it.)
anyway,
point is; NO one wants to address the apparently obvious and equally unnappealing subject of the CAUSE of traffic or as Mufi calls it. duh.
"the obvious problem; too many cars"
(Duke is out to pasture as equally; he sez lite rail and redirect traffic. another shortsighted duh.)
what IS the solution?
Moratorium on building.
They say "Oahu is growing"
No, Oahu IS NOT growing. Oahu can NOT grow. It is a finite land mass. and we are killing our quality of life by allowing this fragile land of ours to become overbuilt . THIS results in too many cars. THAT is of course obviously the problem but for some damn reason, polititians and journalists, I dunno; prefer to talk down to the masses with meaningless sound bites or choose to NOT bring up the subject of destroying each and every one and two story building and erecting another tower or big shopping mausoleum on each and every empty lot. This redevelopmentality results in commonly accepted poisonous colloquialisms such as "underused land". "Mitigate the traffic problem". and other such idiot terms.
We are slowly resembling Wilshire blvd along ala moana. Hawaii Kai was a charming town but now resembles a conjested suburb of L.A. With too much traffic. Zero lot lines. NO setbacks. Matchbox rat-trap houses built right up to the road. So walking along the public sidewalk, you can unfortunately witness visually and audibly the bathroom and bedroom activity of strangers.
Why are we doing all this?!
Why do we not see the obvious damage to our coral reef system? The overtaxing of our very limited water supply? Our landfills? the trash problem? Our decrepit third world country road conditions? We have created an ugly monster and one of the many side effects is; emergency vehicles can NOT get thru our hiways and byways. I DO hope it is the loved one of a developer who helps to overpopulate our overcrowded Honolulu, that ends up in the next ambulance trying in vain to get to a hospital.
We build lite rail, or add more lanes or put any kind of small band aid on this severed limb... it is just that. Too little, too late, shortsighted remedy that does NOT address the cause.
Why this universal fully accepted myopia?!
Inquiring minds wanna know.
Mufi and Duke discuss traffic in da pepah;
Mufi sez:
Traffic; its the no 1 complaint... the problem is obvious; tooo many cars on the road.
da hell does this mean?
Why doesn't he say:
the CAUSE and remedy is obvious:
Overpopulation of a small city.
TOO many 35 story condo buildings being erected in a small area.
here's the problem which is obvious to, well, obviously too few people;
Polititians, journalists, all, when they discuss this subject:
resemble a deaf dumb blind person in a drunken stupor : with a blindfold on. wobbling around, grasping at straws.
EVERYone sez;
well we gotta add more lanes,
or we gotta do lite rail.
or Bus rapid transit system should be overhauled.
(now THERE is an absurdity if I ever heard one:
"bus RAPID transit."
I can get from point a to point b faster on a skateboard than on the bus. NOTHING rapid about it.)
anyway,
point is; NO one wants to address the apparently obvious and equally unnappealing subject of the CAUSE of traffic or as Mufi calls it. duh.
"the obvious problem; too many cars"
(Duke is out to pasture as equally; he sez lite rail and redirect traffic. another shortsighted duh.)
what IS the solution?
Moratorium on building.
They say "Oahu is growing"
No, Oahu IS NOT growing. Oahu can NOT grow. It is a finite land mass. and we are killing our quality of life by allowing this fragile land of ours to become overbuilt . THIS results in too many cars. THAT is of course obviously the problem but for some damn reason, polititians and journalists, I dunno; prefer to talk down to the masses with meaningless sound bites or choose to NOT bring up the subject of destroying each and every one and two story building and erecting another tower or big shopping mausoleum on each and every empty lot. This redevelopmentality results in commonly accepted poisonous colloquialisms such as "underused land". "Mitigate the traffic problem". and other such idiot terms.
We are slowly resembling Wilshire blvd along ala moana. Hawaii Kai was a charming town but now resembles a conjested suburb of L.A. With too much traffic. Zero lot lines. NO setbacks. Matchbox rat-trap houses built right up to the road. So walking along the public sidewalk, you can unfortunately witness visually and audibly the bathroom and bedroom activity of strangers.
Why are we doing all this?!
Why do we not see the obvious damage to our coral reef system? The overtaxing of our very limited water supply? Our landfills? the trash problem? Our decrepit third world country road conditions? We have created an ugly monster and one of the many side effects is; emergency vehicles can NOT get thru our hiways and byways. I DO hope it is the loved one of a developer who helps to overpopulate our overcrowded Honolulu, that ends up in the next ambulance trying in vain to get to a hospital.
We build lite rail, or add more lanes or put any kind of small band aid on this severed limb... it is just that. Too little, too late, shortsighted remedy that does NOT address the cause.
Why this universal fully accepted myopia?!
Inquiring minds wanna know.
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