Comments on: Why Honolulu needs rail http://billso.com/2008/06/08/why-honolulu-needs-rail/ Bill Sodeman writes about management, mobile computing and information systems Wed, 01 Jun 2011 08:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: billso http://billso.com/2008/06/08/why-honolulu-needs-rail/comment-page-1/#comment-1298 billso Fri, 13 Jun 2008 16:42:40 +0000 http://billso.com/?p=1637#comment-1298 The anti-rail petition has only 16,000 signatures, according to the <a href="http://starbulletin.com/2008/06/13/news/story06.html" rel="nofollow">Honolulu Star-Bulletin</a>: <blockquote>[Mayor Mufi] Hannemann acknowledged a group of residents attempting to stop the project. "I respect the democratic process," he said. "But what is their alternative? It's not HOT lanes, toll roads, underwater tunnels or expanded bus routes. They cannot replace rail." Stop Rail Now, an anti-rail initiative, has collected 16,000 of the nearly 45,000 signatures it needs to propose an ordinance on the November ballot, saying, "Honolulu mass transit shall not include trains or rail." </blockquote> The anti-rail petition has only 16,000 signatures, according to the Honolulu Star-Bulletin:

[Mayor Mufi] Hannemann acknowledged a group of residents attempting to stop the project. “I respect the democratic process,” he said. “But what is their alternative? It’s not HOT lanes, toll roads, underwater tunnels or expanded bus routes. They cannot replace rail.”

Stop Rail Now, an anti-rail initiative, has collected 16,000 of the nearly 45,000 signatures it needs to propose an ordinance on the November ballot, saying, “Honolulu mass transit shall not include trains or rail.“

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