Parking in Chinatown is getting harder

The Hon­olulu Adver­tiser ran a front-page arti­cle this morn­ing about the grow­ing park­ing prob­lems in Chi­na­town. I’ve wor­ried that down­town busi­nesses and col­leges might face prob­lems as more cus­tomers face longer waits to find that elu­sive park­ing space.

Com­pa­nies keep mov­ing down­town, and they some­times wind up with more employ­ees than ded­i­cated park­ing spaces. The solu­tions range from shared park­ing spaces to sub­si­dized bus passes!

Too many vehi­cles? Or not enough mass transit?

Recent fig­ures indi­cate that there are 734,270 reg­is­tered vehi­cles on Oahu. Another arti­cle in this morning’s Adver­tiser indi­cates there are 1.13 mil­lion vehi­cles in the state, while our pop­u­la­tion is 1.28 mil­lion peo­ple. Of course, the large rental car fleets on our islands are a part of this total, but it’s still alarm­ing that there’s so many vehi­cles in our state.

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