08-27-2008, 03:12 PM
It was disturbing for me to read that the very first SF transit to Maui included individuals attempting to return with truck loads of rocks for Oahu landscaping projects.
I have had mixed feelings regarding the Super Ferry. It is very easy to appreciate the conveniences that makes it attractive. I toured on of the SF boats in Hilo a few years ago and they are impressive vessels.
But knowing that Oahu, which has effectively been stripped of many or most accessible natural resources, will have easy access for truckloads of material to be regularly and repeatedly removed from the Big Island causes me real concern. It is easy to envision driving the Saddle Road and noticing big holes and gaps in the old existing stone walls.
You are aware that copper is robbed nightly in Honolulu on the H1--- how long do you think our lighting will last with four patrol officers for areas the size of Oahu?
My family had some experience with this in Connecticut on our 300 acre farm. We would actually be working in the fields and notice a strange truck in the distance leaving our property. To busy to investigate immediately we would later find that our stone walls had been plundered. Walls built in the 1730's had random gaps were they were accessible to easy access. The phenomena we suffered from was New Yorkers who seems to feel entitled to whatever they could grab.
Do you think Oahu and Honolulu will treat us differently?
The Super Ferry needs much more attention to protections against pillaging the neighbor islands. Trusting employees who could easily be tempted by $50 to look the other way is not sufficient.
And this topic hasn't even gotten into invasive species yet - unless the invasives are thieves in pick up truck and flatbeds.
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I have had mixed feelings regarding the Super Ferry. It is very easy to appreciate the conveniences that makes it attractive. I toured on of the SF boats in Hilo a few years ago and they are impressive vessels.
But knowing that Oahu, which has effectively been stripped of many or most accessible natural resources, will have easy access for truckloads of material to be regularly and repeatedly removed from the Big Island causes me real concern. It is easy to envision driving the Saddle Road and noticing big holes and gaps in the old existing stone walls.
You are aware that copper is robbed nightly in Honolulu on the H1--- how long do you think our lighting will last with four patrol officers for areas the size of Oahu?
My family had some experience with this in Connecticut on our 300 acre farm. We would actually be working in the fields and notice a strange truck in the distance leaving our property. To busy to investigate immediately we would later find that our stone walls had been plundered. Walls built in the 1730's had random gaps were they were accessible to easy access. The phenomena we suffered from was New Yorkers who seems to feel entitled to whatever they could grab.
Do you think Oahu and Honolulu will treat us differently?
The Super Ferry needs much more attention to protections against pillaging the neighbor islands. Trusting employees who could easily be tempted by $50 to look the other way is not sufficient.
And this topic hasn't even gotten into invasive species yet - unless the invasives are thieves in pick up truck and flatbeds.
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