High Speed Rail Between Hilo and Kona

[Daniel]

I had the wonderful opportunity to live in Chile for two years. I never had a car, or a bike. The transit system is great there. It mostly depends on buses called "la Micro" but there are taxis (pay by the mile) and as they are called in chile "colectivos", which are cars that follow the bus route and cost a little bit more. Very few people have cars there. And the ones that do dont take them on long road trips. So a city the size of hilo would have like 10 or 15 routes, each with its own number. There were also routes between cities, and also cross country. You pay one flat rate and ride as long as you want. It usally cost about 25-50 cents. Im sure its more now, because it was about 3 years ago when I came home. It was very easy to get around, and I didn't spend much at all on transportation. And the beauty of it all was the system seemed to have simply evolved that way. It wasn't built or funded by the government.

Daniel R Diamond