A single light rail line circling Oahu, with perhaps a second line bisecting the island between Haleiwa and Waipahu can mitigate the heavy coastal flow of traffic by replacing huge lumbering city busses with swift, efficient, eco-friendly, electric trains or streetcars that parallel the routes along which traffic now flows. Small busses and perhaps jitneys operated by independent drivers could transit up and down the valleys to and from the various train stations enhancing convenience.
It makes even more sense to allow private entities to build and operate the rail lines at no cost to taxpayers as they have offered to do in the past.
Charming retro-looking rail cars could easily become popular tourist attractions, but nooooooooo, we gotta have the sexiest, costliest, most up in the airiest, buttfuglist, most futuristic, impractical, broke down, unproven technological, abominations money can buy. Why? Because we're chumps.
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