05-17-2014, 10:09 AM
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Originally posted by rainyjim
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Originally posted by ericlp
I say for 200Million one could put in high speed rail from kalapana out to hilo stop at target / mall / UH / hilo shopping center and down to old town. Would be nice view of the ocean along the way.
Not a bad idea, I would like one around the belt road also as well as down the puna 'cul-de-sac'.
$200 million would not even start a modern passenger railway.
and, Puna will never have the 500,000 population in a small area or more it takes to justify a modern passenger railway. Furthermore, building a new modern railway into an existing city, such as Hilo, is always more expensive and disruptive. Honolulu being case in point in terms of cost and disruption.