The new full-page ad features “Transit’s tax take to be 19% of city’s collection” report by Star Advertiser’s Kevin Dayton. Taxpayer subsidies of transit operations after rail nearly double – to 19% of the city’s overall tax collections. That means either taxes will have to be raised, or we will have to live with less city services.
By Cynthia Oi POSTED: 01:30 a.m. Honolulu Star Advertiser, Oct 18, 2012 The people who keep track of such things estimate that spending for the 2012 presidential and congressional elections will reach a record-breaking $5.8 billion. The people who do the spending probably shrug at…
Can taxpayers afford to pay for Rail on top of all this? Do we want to? Mauka to Makai / In 2009, at the time of the vote for Rail, did we have, other than the claims of the supporters and of those opposed, enough…
The goal of our transportation plan is to provide a Flexible, Affordable, Smart, Transportation system that will not jeopardize the city’s financial future.
We’ve known it all along but now there’s iron-clad proof: The billions of dollars Kirk Caldwell wants to pour into the rail project – initially for construction and later for operating expenses – would severely erode city services and lead to widespread tax and fee…
City claims they “don’t have the money” to reverse unpopular service cuts to TheBus. Yet the city quietly squanders $7.2 million on yet another change order for rail while passengers endure long waits for buses to arrive, then stand in the aisles or are turned away because the buses are packed.
David Shapiro at the Honolulu Star Advertiser gives a powerful look at what’s wrong with the rail project in his most recent article, “Questionable connections litter embattled rail project.” Shapiro writes, Councilman Nestor Garcia’s $6,500 ethics fine for voting 52 times in favor of rail without…
In response to Kirk Caldwell’s “questions” last week, Ben released the following statement: “If the three volumes of the $10 million 2003 Environmental Impact Statement approved by the FTA and me, as governor, which concluded that BRT was superior to rail is not specific enough,…
With the budget battle heating up in Washington, Carlisle, Caldwell and other train boosters planning on $1.55 billion in federal money to help build the elevated railway better come up with another plan. The Republican-controlled House of Representatives, in a sign of things to come, cut…
The new era of local government: Taxpayers can expect to pay more but get less. By STEVEN MALANGA The Wall Street Journal: March 31, 2012 What does it look like when a city of almost 300,000 flirts with becoming America’s largest ever city to go…
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