06-22-2018, 06:41 AM
http://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/2018...d-june-29/
Special session of Council to try passing the GET increase again.
Get rid of Hele - On bus
Reminds me of this: a small town on the east coast had a capacity problem with the parking lot next to the train station due to the number of commuters who would drive across town and park there to ride the train into the city. The "obvious" solution was a multii-million-dollar bond issue to build a new parking lot. After running the numbers, the town figured out that it was orders of magnitude cheaper to just pay Uber fares for the commuters who needed to get to the train station.
I have often thought a hybrid approach would work here: run a few "backbone" Hele-On routes (eg, Pahoa-Keaau-Hilo) and pay Uber to bring people to/from the highway instead of sending the busses on twisty little routes that try to capture the most riders -- which also makes the bus journey so long that people will avoid taking the bus if they possibly can.
Of course, this requires "innovation" and "seeing the problem differently", which simply isn't "how things are done here".
Special session of Council to try passing the GET increase again.
Get rid of Hele - On bus
Reminds me of this: a small town on the east coast had a capacity problem with the parking lot next to the train station due to the number of commuters who would drive across town and park there to ride the train into the city. The "obvious" solution was a multii-million-dollar bond issue to build a new parking lot. After running the numbers, the town figured out that it was orders of magnitude cheaper to just pay Uber fares for the commuters who needed to get to the train station.
I have often thought a hybrid approach would work here: run a few "backbone" Hele-On routes (eg, Pahoa-Keaau-Hilo) and pay Uber to bring people to/from the highway instead of sending the busses on twisty little routes that try to capture the most riders -- which also makes the bus journey so long that people will avoid taking the bus if they possibly can.
Of course, this requires "innovation" and "seeing the problem differently", which simply isn't "how things are done here".