Oahu Alternative Transport

How 21st Century Honolulu Can Become

Smart And Save Billions

This is an opportunity for intelligent political leadership

Illustrations show current City Fleet Buses

Just For Concept Scale

– These Are Not Smart Electric Buses

Nearly All Existing Rail Structures Can Be

Converted

Within Existing Rail Funding, No New Taxes,

A Brighter Future, Savings Billions

Conversion Of The Fixed Rail Guideway

To A Smart Electric Vehicle

Guideway Very Feasible

Illustrations show current City Fleet Buses

Just For Concept Scale

– These Are Not Smart Electric Buses

The Shift To Solar And Electric Vehicles Is Too

Monumental To Overstate

https://cleantechnica.com/2016/08/02/shift-solar-wind

-electric-vehicles-monumental-overstate/

Honolulu is fortunate that the answer

to the rail fiasco is now

at our doorstep,

awaiting intelligent political leadership

The very rapidly arriving smart electric vehicle industry,

now worldwide, has arrived just in time to offer the

exact traffic solution Honolulu needs to save Billions and

offers the best possible

commuter traffic relief, nearly

all paid by private industry! This is the Public-Private

Partnership funding everyone

has been looking for! The

Smart Electric Vehicle marketplace is taking off like

a Space X rocket. The Smart

high technology companies like

Google, Apple can come to Hawaii and help us make

this happen. Ford and General

Motors are investing heavily

in this rapidly growing new smart transit market and

help the state achieve the

goal of all renewable energy by

2045.

Malaysia is one of the first nations to go with

Electric Buses on an elevated guideway!

News Release March 10, 2017 (see More Below)

The State of California, San Bernardino Council of Governments,

and partners at Daylight Transport and BYD

Motors have announced the arrival of the first of 27 zero-emission electric

yard and service trucks in three

disadvantaged communities in Southern California. The demonstration truck

project is part of California Climate

Investments, a statewide program that invests in reducing greenhouse gas

emissions, strengthening the

economy and improving public health and the environment.

By converting the existing built rail guideway with the precision

computer control of smart electric vehicles and

the best of all possible pollution free traffic alleviations worlds can be achieved.

Further, Smart Electric Vehicles

are the perfect high technology fit for investment and job opportunities in

science, technology, engineering and

math, also known as STEM, to prepare Hawaii for the future. Honolulu residents

can save billions in taxes and

fees, create high technology jobs and actually ENJOY commuting to work

in the most comfortable way possible.

Rail is not now projected to produce any passenger revenue

until at least 2026. However the existing guideway

can in fact be converted into managed Smart Highway lanes that are computer

controlled and operated with

lane use restrictions and electronic tolling to optimize traffic flow and vehicle

throughput. This can be far easier

and much sooner than most imagine, possibly by 2020-23 with many smart

technology companies and

engineers willing to help, solving H-1 traffic congestion and earning the City

and State Smart Electric Vehicle

revenue literally in just years.

All sound too good to be true? Just read on for all of the facts

some City politicians and HART don’t want you to

know that private industry is doing right now… And it is entirely possible FTA

may be supportive as well as the

FHWA (Federal Highway Administration.)

In the growing debate about the incredibly skyrocketing and completely

unknown final

Billions in costs for rail it

has been suggested that the project just stop and the guideway could be either

knocked down -OR converted

into a rubber tire rapid transit guideway.

Is this feasible? Surprisingly converting the guideway into a roadway could

very likely be the least expensive

money saving alternative to make best use of the already built guideway- which

still lacks all stations and any

type of very expensive electric power system, among other important operational

requirements. To say that the

rail project is 50% completed is completely untrue as only part of the guideway

and some rusting rails have

been installed. Rail cars currently cannot move unless pushed or towed

back and forth, as has been

demonstrated. Major very expensive issues and many years remain to actually

power an operational rail

service- 2026 at minimum.

The Plinthless Rail Guideway Makes This

Smart Conversion Even Easier!

Kiewit construction made a fortuitous construction

decision with the West Oahu rail guideway contract (while

also losing millions in unrecovered costs) with the now fortunate decision to

choose a CHEAPER Plinthless rail

guideway attachment system which affixes the rail directly to the concrete

roadway of the guideway with a

plastic shim. This is actually very questionable for long term rail maintenance

costs and Kiewit has already been

required to replace nearly all of the plastic plinths at least once. They are among

the first things to break in the

future. The good news is that because raised hard concrete Plinths were NOT

used makes removal of the rusty

track much easier in conversion to a rubber tire open roadway for Smart Electric

Vehicles. Once the blue plastic

shims and rusty rails are removed the concrete guideway

is nearly road ready!

HART guideway diagrams show the existing two way rail guideway

is 30 feet, 6 inches wide. The U.S. Interstate

Highway System uses a 12-foot (3.7 m) standard for lane width, while

narrower lanes are used on lower

classification roads. Therefore the current rail guideway can support two-way

Smart Electric Vehicle traffic once

the rails and any cross ties are removed. Smart vehicles are computer

precise using GPS and Artificial

Intelligence so many, many Smart vehicles – cars, vans, SUV, buses can

use the guideway even closely packed

together. Another report is available detailing the advantages of Smart

Electric Vehicles- watch this Tony Seba

video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kxryv2XrnqM

Smart Electric Vehicles will revolutionize all concepts

of Public Transit and Transit Oriented Development and

Honolulu has the opportunity to be a part of this amazing transit revolution. Less

than 3 years away by 2020 as

a major world transportation market and under extensive testing and development

right now, these concepts

will change everything about how people will go to places in Hawaii.

In 5 years Smart Vehicles will be as

ubiquitous as cell phones today and the marketplace

driven by Social Media.

Smart Electric Buses Perform All Of The Functions Of Commuter Rail

At A Fraction Of The Cost

The Original Rail EIS (Environmental Impact Assessment)

Evaluated The Fixed Guideway

The Rail environmental impact assessment study (EIS) evaluated

whether an elevated rail transit system was the

only option to solve the transportation problems of the city. Four options were

considered in the study - a no-

build alternative, a transportation management system, express buses

operating in managed lanes and a fixed

guideway transit system. The EIS concluded that a fixed guideway transit

system would be the best and most

cost-effective solution for serving the long-term needs of the people of the

city. Note that the EIS did not specify

19th Century RAIL- (which was a later ramrodded decision of then Mayor

Mufi Hannemann) - just a grade

separated fixed elevated guideway.

The current EIS remains valid for the elevated guideway

sections already built that can now be adapted for use

by 21st Century smart electric vehicles. The Airport to Downtown segment is in

an identified FEMA, NOAA, UH-

SOEST Sea Level Rise, Tsunami and Hurricane Storm Surge flood disaster

zone that will cause loss of lives,

property and valuable important Critical Infrastructure through City negligence

and malfeasance. This why the

guideway should stop at Aloha Stadium.

HART Rail Will NEVER Meet Hawaii Renewable

Energy Goals

By 2045 – Here’s Why…

Conversion NOW of the fixed guideway to Smart Electric

Vehicles is the best possible alternative with

21st Century Smart electric vehicle transit technology now on our

doorstep that is precisely in tune with Hawaii’s

goals to be using 100% renewable energy sources by 2045. HART Rail

will NEVER be able to meet renewable

energy goals by 2045 because of rail traction power electricity

requirements. 24/7 20 hours a day is way too

high of demand for direct solar or wind energy and even with battery storage,

would be massively expensive if

even feasible.

Oct 5, 2015 - Pacific Business News

When and if Honolulu’s more than $6 billion rail

transit project is fully

realized, the county will be the largest consumer of

electricity in Hawaii, the

chairman of the Honolulu City Council,

confirmed to PBN.

Electric vehicles can run on a fraction of rail’s electricity

requirements from stored solar rooftop power and may

soon be able to run directly using electric vehicle rooftop solar panels.

(Worldwide electric rail operators claim

they use “Renewable Energy” but this is just NOT TRUE. They actually are

purchasing Guarantees of Origin

(GoO) certificates, like Carbon Credits, to Greenwash their public

“environmental renewable electric energy”

image. This is a modern corporation ploy.

See more below.)

The fact is using 100% renewable energy sources by 2045 is and will

be entirely possible for Hawaii with Smart

Electric Vehicles and renewable sources like solar panels. HART Rail requires

coal and oil for electric power

because HART trains will require many power stations using three-phase

alternating current and its own very

expensive power grid – yet to be designed and built. The HART rail power

electric bill will be the highest in

Hawaii history- all paid by tax-payers as part of major

Operations and Maintenance.

Huge rail Maintenance and Operations costs.

These are totally avoidable costs using

Smart Electric Vehicles if Honolulu government had

intelligent, honest political

leadership for the people and not just Caldwell

Campaign contributors

Smart electric vehicles are mostly privately owned and operated

and can be powered from home rooftop or

parking garage solar panels and run for hundreds of miles saving Oahu

tax-payers from subsidizing it. HART has

told the City Council that the majority of rail riders (70,000 trips per

day) will come from our bus system.

Therefore it makes the most sense to save billions in taxes and fees and

keep bus riders in single transit mode

Smart Electric Buses and vehicles powered by renewable electric energy

using the existing elevated fixed

guideway.

Guideway Conversion Saving

Oahu Tax-Payers Billions NOW

Conversion of the guideway to Smart Electric Vehicles and ending

at Aloha Stadium will take huge numbers of

vehicles off H-1 freeway as well as saving billions in construction costs,

unnecessary city blight and massive rail

maintenance and operations costs. No largest electric rail power bill in

Hawaii history needed and entirely

avoidable. It is truly dumb and outright governmental malfeasance to spend

another $6 billion to $9 billion for a

1 or 2% improvement in traffic at an annual financial cost of $130 million,

$500 million a mile guideway

construction and permanent harm to our environment not meeting renewable

energy goals. That’s really dumb

if not malfeasance and criminal.

Conversion to 21st Century Smart Electric Vehicle Transit

The Best, Cheapest Alternative

Conversion to a rubber tire fixed elevated guideway would be the cheapest

alternative and most effective use of

the existing built structures of all possible alternatives.

19th Century Steel on Steel that HART is using causes wear and tear

from friction from wheels on rails

accelerating rail vehicle and track plinth shim wear as well as making

much more noise even with guideway

noise barriers. Steel on Steel screeching will be especially noticeable late

at night and early morning. Electric

buses are extremely quiet and lack of noise from their powertrains, one

of the many reasons Cities are buying

them. In fact electric vehicle powertrains are so efficient and reliable,

with only a few moving parts, that that

some manufacturers are offering lifetime warranties.

An At Grade rail route (street car and trolley) may be still applicable

in downtown areas. MagLev is a great

technology but remains widely unsupported in the United States

and requires an electricity grid.

Smart Electric Vehicles can be totally off grid, self-powering, extremely

quiet and extremely route flexible.

New fast electric charging stations can power up

public transit vehicles in just minutes.

Existing Guideway Conversion Relatively

Simple And Cost Effective.

Here’s Why:

The conversion to a rubber tire guideway will be even simpler

because Kiewit made the early decision to use

plastic shims instead of concrete plinths on the already built guideway.

Just by removing the rusty rail reveals a

nearly road ready rubber tire guideway. Access by smart electric vehicles

can be done at the HART Rail

Operations Center where there is street level access directly from the

H-1 Freeway. Unlike rail which has

restricted curves and grade climb limits of 2-4% maximum, rubber tire

electric vehicles can easily climb much

steeper concrete ramp grades and make sharper turns as seen in

many Honolulu parking structures.

http://trn.trains.com/railroads/abcs-of-railroading/2006/05/grades-and-curves

Guideway Contractors, Equipment, Casting

Yard Already Exists And

Ready For Conversion Ramps

At grade electric smart vehicle access to the guideway

is available by Leeward Community College.

The State of Hawaii could likely fund additional elevated guideway on-off

ramps with DOT Federal Highway

Administration (FHWA) funds. Best of all the existing rail guideway

contractors already have the necessary

equipment and casting yard to make the required on-off ramp conversions.

Everything is already in place and

ready to be contracted out saving Billions by stopping

rail at Aloha Stadium.

Smart Electric Vehicles can pay any City-State tolls, registration

fees, insurance, etc. electronically.

Smart Electric Freight trucks are zero-emission electric vehicles for fleet

markets, municipalities, universities,

and

state and federal government. Money saving and instant

City and State Revenue!

Run Smart Electric Trucks

On The Converted Guideway

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electric_truck

Aloha Stadium Smart Electric Vehicle Access

Ramps To The Elevated Guideway

At Aloha Stadium there would be room to provide concrete guideway

access ramps that would allow Smart

Electric Vehicle vans and buses to drive off the guideway and continue

on to Joint Base Pearl Harbor, Tripler,

Camp Smith and Fort Shafter, taking at least 80% of military, defense and

government workers off of most of H-1

freeway, out of the major choke point traffic merges and directly to their

jobs in 15 to 20 minutes! 30 minute to

1-2 hour commutes to work would be a thing

of the past.

The use of GPS (Global Positioning System) and Smart Electric Vehicles

would be almost identical to the original

HART rail concept in that smart vehicles can be driverless, follow an exact

“virtual track” with high precision and

be computer controlled from a traffic operations center. Every Smart Electric

Vehicle on the guideway would

appear on a live electronic map. Every “advantage” HART Rail purports

to have will be completely available with

Smart Electric Vehicles but at a small fraction of the operations cost.

The Logic For Stopping The Guideway

At Aloha Stadium

Aloha Stadium has all of the needed land and Oahu highway

connections to be an ideal transit center. The

stadium site could also be where the cross Pearl Harbor ferry would dock.

There is already a ferry landing near

there and one on the other side of Pearl Harbor near Iroquois Point homes.

Just one of MANY better transit

alternatives that have been SUPPRESSED by the Rail politicians to force

H-1 crowding. The stadium is by far the

best logical place as the Oahu island transit center as ALL of the major

Oahu roads lead there. (A separate study

report is available on the Aloha Stadium PH ferry plan.)

If Aloha Stadium was used as a Smart Electric Vehicle transit center

with on-off ramps, Joint Base Pearl Harbor

workers would be at their jobs – from West Oahu – in approximately

15-20 minutes. Aloha Stadium also offers

reestablishment of the cross Pearl Harbor ferry which ran successfully

without accident for over 50 years.

Thiswould provide an additional H-1 traffic mitigation route from

West Oahu to Joint Base Pearl Harbor Hickam and

Kamehameha Highway.

Stopping rail at Aloha Stadium and converting the elevated guideway

to Smart Electric Vehicles would be within

the existing Rail EIS and Hawaiian iwi burials would likely not be found

because archaeological surveys have

already been conducted at Aloha Stadium and the elevated guide way

could be finished with the existing

available budget.

Buses or a street trolley rail could continue on to the airport,

Middle Street and downtown. Middle Street and

downtown are in well-known flood disaster zones. The elevated rail

guideway to Ala Moana is an easily

predicted construction fiasco, becoming a vastly unpopular traffic nightmare

and financial black hole sucking up

huge amounts of construction money in swamp lands while severely

damaging the entire historic character of

Honolulu. All of this disaster can be avoided saving Billions.

The airport and Middle Street are in major FEMA, NOAA and

UH-SOEST identified Sea Level Rise, Tsunami and

Hurricane Storm surge flood disaster zones. The ground water table

is very close to the ground surface and in

the not too distant future Honolulu airport will see ocean water crossing

the runways at high tides. A tsunami or

Hurricane storm surge could do all this in just a matter of hours.

There are ZERO plans to mitigate for this.

Middle Street is already very well known for flooding

and just recently City HandiVan buses were caught and

badly damaged in a heavy rainfall flood after a close passing hurricane.

The City lied and committed perjury in

three places in the rail EIS about the rail project’s final segment not being

in an identified tsunami flood disaster

zone. The tsunami flood original maps were publically issued in 2010.

City and State “planners” and contracted

civil engineers still widely act ignorant about these facts.

Unfortunately despite all of the evidence the City and Pro-Rail construction groups fight

furiously against the

best interests, safety and fiduciary responsibility to the tax paying public.

Their agenda has been most

expensive rail project possible for maximum profits and carelessly

allowing massive disaster Critical

Infrastructure losses ignoring huge amounts of best scientific

studies, maps and data.

Leeward-Ewa Kapolei Access Ramps

To make this conversion ideally useful for West Oahu commuters

(Leeward Coast, Ewa-Kapolei) concrete

guideway access ramps should be constructed where the UH West Oahu

station is planned with massive

thousand car parking lots. These massive car parking lots would be completely

unnecessary. Instead East Town

Bound Smart Electric Vehicles (City TheBus operated or private) offering a variety

of low cost public Electric bus,

van pool transit, Smart Electric Handi-Van to even more luxury oriented home

to office van and bus services

would pick up passengers in the Leeward Makaha-Waianae-Nanakuli and

Ewa-Kapolei communities and go to

the Kualaka’i Parkway (North South Road) elevated guideway access ramps.

The guideway use would only be for

Smart Electric vehicles, not gas-diesel powered.

These Smart Electric Vehicles would proceed East Town Bound

and could then get back onto H-1 by Leeward

Community College where there is At Grade guideway access, or go on

to Aloha Tower. In the afternoon the

Guideway would be used in the West Leeward Bound direction. Because

there would be two lanes available on

the guideway it could be configured for either bi-directional traffic of two

lanes in just one direction. The current

H-1 Zipper lanes would still be available for more

traffic mitigation.

H-1 vehicle traffic congestion would be significantly reduced every

commuting day for gas-diesel powered

vehicles which would be gradually phased out of existence by 2045 as all

new vehicles sold would be electric by

2035.

Most Rail Stations Not Needed,

Overly Expensive, Have

Unnecessary Expensive Artwork

Most HART Rail stations are not needed, are overly expensive, will be

maintenance and security intensive, and

most if not all will have any overhead covers. Most now may not actually

look at all as publicly advertised,

lacking many expected commuter features- maybe one elevator, one bathroom.

All will require massive change

orders currently being hidden now from the public to make rail costs appear

LOWER NOW when in fact massive

expensive revisions and additions will be

required LATER.

Many criticized the EIS for not further discussing bus rapid transit

and toll lanes, options mostly brushed aside

earlier by the City in its Alternatives Analysis which overwhelmingly,

for purely political reasons, chose

19th Century Steel on Steel rail. Conversion of the elevated guideway to

a rubber tire reversible managed HOT

lane concept would now actually be what many

originally wanted in 2008.

Conversion from rail to a rubber tire fixed guideway is not only

relatively simple but is far less expensive than any

other Rail Fiasco proposal so far. Tearing it down costs a billion or more

according to HART, while continuing on

costs many unknown Billions more. Conversion of the guideway to

Smart Electric Vehicles allows for the lowest

cost primary aim of the original project as presented to the public which

to is to offer high-capacity rapid transit

in the congested east-west transportation

corridor of H-1.

Fortunately 21st Century Smart Electric Vehicles

have arrived just in time to save

Honolulu Billions- if an intelligent political leader can be found.

Current rail stations can be either deleted from the project saving huge

amounts of money or adapted to Smart

Electric Buses. Basically this requires either lowering the station

boarding platforms or raising the station

entrance ramps a few feet so that riders can board as they do at regular

bus stops. Dangers of falling on

electrified rail and electrocution can be eliminated. Electric Smart Buses

at $900,000 can perform exactly the

same purpose as $4.2 million heavy rail cars.

Smart Vehicles Will Be Instant City And State Revenue

Generators Unlike Super Expensive Rail

One great possibility that could bring in even MORE instant City and State

revenue from a smart vehicle

guideway is allowing Smart Electric Freight Trucks using the guideway

during off peak hours for truck freight

shipments between Honolulu, Aloha Stadium and

West Oahu communities.

The At Grade Rail Operations Complex Can Be TheBus

And Smart Vehicle Guideway Access Points E & W

Electric Trucks Start Arriving at Southern

California Freight, Rail Yards

http://www.truckinginfo.com/channel/fuel-smarts/news/story/2017/03/

first-of-27-electric-trucks-arrives-at-

southern-california-freight-rail-yards.aspx

The State of California, San Bernardino Council of Governments,

and partners at Daylight Transport and BYD

Motors have announced the arrival of the first of 27 zero-emission electric

yard and service trucks in three

disadvantaged communities in

Southern California.

Smart Vehicles, Electric Buses Are

Cheaper And Can Better

Adaptively Scale To Rider Demand

The HART trains (according to various HART statements that

vary a lot) will be able to carry 300 passengers each

and transport more than 6,000 people with the number expected to reach

90,000 a day by 2030. An articulated

(stretch, two-section, higher-capacity) electric bus can carry 120+ people

but with far more passenger comfort

and seats than the HART rail cars. TheBus (using mostly Gillig Phantoms

with maybe a few articulated diesel-

electric hybrids) is already carrying 70,000 people a day now and electric

smart buses on the converted rubber

tire elevated guideway can easily scale up to 90,000 by 2030. Rather

than running non-renewable electricity

intensive rail continuously 24/7, 20 hours a day at huge expense, electric

buses with WiFi, etc. can be recharged

with rooftop solar panels or fast charging stations and scaled to the passenger

demand, picking up people near

their homes and taking them very close to where they work, without multiple

mode changes. This will no doubt

be the MOST POPULAR RIDER CHOICE of the 21st Century. Many

cities are now buying electric bus fleets.

Social Media will be wild about Smart Electric Vehicles,

unique commuter services like exercise to work!

Smart Vehicles Directly In Touch

With 21st Century

Smart Phones, Apps, Bicyclists, Social Media

Why is the City government forcing on Oahu taxpayers the absolutely

dumbest and most expensive transit

system possible with no accountability when far, far better lower cost,

intelligent 21st century solutions now

exist? Smart Electric Vehicles are basically computers on wheels with

few maintenance requirements and work

perfectly with smartphone apps, Lidar, GPS, allowing any type of desired

commuter service to be immediately

ordered up. Low cost smart van pools, smart luxury vans, smart cars, smart

bike vans (pickup, drop off bicyclists)

and a range of other new innovative and customizable 21st Century transit

solutions that will be immensely

popular on Social Media.

The smart electric vehicle rubber tire guideway will keep many

thousands of cars off H-1 (far more than rail will)

and off secondary commuter roads and highways on Oahu every day,

meeting all of the goals of the original

fixed guideway project concept of 20 years ago. The current rail operations

center and rail yard by Leeward

Community College is at grade level with the guideway and can be

converted into a smart electric vehicle

service center and bus yard where electric powered buses can be parked

under solar collectors and fast electric

charging stations.

The Rail will never be truly solar or wind powered because

of the massive 24/7 traction power requirements and

instead will require non-renewable coal and oil power. These are facts HART

likes to mislead the public about as

do other rail operations around the world. Instead they just buy

“renewable energy” certificates that greenwash

the reality of high electric traction power demands, wasteful power

consuming 24/7 rail stations requiring at

least 14 power plants, massive expensive electric power lines, conduits,

etc. On the other hand, smart vehicles

use a fraction of electricity, which is all renewable solar and can be

rapidly recharged far more economically

while parked. In development are rooftop solar collectors for trucks

and buses allowing almost limitless 24/7

renewable electric operation without having to ever stop.

21st Century Smart Electric Buses Run On The Elevated Guideway

Will Provide ALL Features And More Than

Rail Can Ever Offer And At A Fraction Of The Price

– And Will Be Mostly Public Private Operated!

HART Rail Is Destroying America’s

Best Bus System – This Is

Malfeasance If Not Insanity

TheBus has a ridership of approximately 75.5 million boardings

annually on its fleet of 518 buses, providing daily

service on 110 routes. TheBus is privately managed by Oʻahu Transit

Services Inc., which operates the system

under a public-private partnership with the City and County of Honolulu

Department of Transportation Services.

TheBus has been the only mass transit system to be recognized twice

by the American Public Transportation

Association as America's Best Transit System for 1994–1995 and 2000

–2001, beating other transit systems.

The city Rail will force over 35,000 bus riders daily to transfer to rail

making three highly unpopular mode

changes twice day. This will drive many commuters to use other modes

like older private cars. Instead of this

outright stupidity and mismanagement of public transit assets the logical

good government choice should be

converting the elevated fixed guideway to Smart Electric

Cars and Buses.

Particularly TheBus which is already a City Public-Private

Partnership that works extremely well!

Smart Electric Vehicles user fees will be paid electronically

and instantly. All guideway vehicles will be

automatically insured, all fees paid electronically and instantly. All handicapped,

elderly etc do not have to deal

with Tokyo robot rail cars and slamming robot doors. TheBus has well

trained drivers attuned to local island

culture. TheBus has security cameras in its bus fleet to deter criminal

activity on board the coaches, which

includes assaults and graffiti where the driver can immediately stop if

necessary. Due to its low cost and wide

coverage, TheBus is a very popular means of travel by high school and

college students. Killing TheBus

routes and service means jacked up prices for

students, elderly, etc.

The wealthy mayor and corrupt City Council don’t care

and only want unaccountable rail taxes and fees.

HART Rail Stations Are Huge

Expensive Energy Guzzlers, Magnets

for Criminals And Terrorists

The HART rail stations are huge expensive energy guzzling standalone

structures substantially bigger than most

typical light rail stations and each contains expense artwork that must be

guarded 24/7. They will be homeless

and crime magnets and favorite targets of thieves, lunatics and terrorists.

Bus boarding stops do not require

massively expensive stations with expensive artwork that does nothing

except drive construction profiteering

and change order costs out of sight.

Using TheBus on the elevated guideway as Smart Electric Buses maintains

Honolulu’s island style traditions that

everyone, including tourists like, but will also allow newer commuter

concepts of luxury seats for every

passenger, WiFi, etc. as found on many newer Hawaii tour buses.

The converted guideway could also

accommodate military base Smart VanPool passenger vans picking up

personnel in West Oahu at their homes

and taking them directly to their work places- all

in a single comfortable ride.

Far Better, Cheaper, More Flexible 21st Century

Technology Supported By The World’s Brightest Minds

The Smart Elevated Guideway Conversion Offers

Many Choices At Low Operational Costs

The proposed guideway conversion does virtually everything the

City rail promises but far better, far cheaper, far

smarter and with greater future flexibility of continuous developments

in electric vehicles and software

technologies from the world’s brightest minds. 19th Century heavy rail

locks Honolulu into an extremely

regressive dumbest possible transit solution totally out of

scale for an island population.

Elevated Guideway Can Be Two Directions,

Reversible As Needed,

Carry Smart Truck Freight Off Hours

Electric buses and cars are extremely quiet, use totally renewable

solar energy, are very low maintenance, unlike

rail which is high maintenance, requires nonrenewable coal and oil power

to sustain massively expensive 24/7

traction power requirements and produces steel

on steel noise.

There is almost no flexibility with 19th Century steel on steel

while 21st Century Smart Electric Vehicles

offer a wide array of rider comfort, destination flexibility,

SmartPhone apps and Social Media excitement.

HART Rail Going Into Widely Known Disaster Area,

Has No Emergency Disaster Plan Or Applications

Rail’s section from the airport to Ala Moana is in a FEMA, NOAA,

UH-SOEST Sea level Rise, Tsunami and

Hurricane inundation zone. Building rail and stations there is a guaranteed

disaster wasting billions in City, State

and Federal tax dollars as well as risking thousands of lives. It is the

dumbest most ignorant route possible based

upon all best science evidence. Smart electric vehicle technologies can

service all of these areas with complete

flexibility to evacuate and provide emergency transportation. None

of the transit assets will be lost in a disaster.

Electric rail stations will be shut down and people trapped.

The conversion to Smart Electric Vehicles allows for immediate

emergency notifications to all vehicles with

immediate redirection away from an incoming ocean disasters

such as a tsunami. Even better, the smart

guideway allows for use by emergency smart vehicles

(police, fire, rescue, EMT) in emergencies.

Smart Electric Vehicles The Smart,

Lowest Cost Choice For

Honolulu And Statewide

*All major world vehicle manufacturers rapidly

developing smart vehicles. The technology has

arrived. Honolulu could actually be a SMART CITY

instead of one of the dumbest in the world.

*Requirements: Remove tracks. Find suitable on-off ramps.

Leeward Community College at grade

access already.

*Provides for the best of all possible worlds based upon

the present rail fiasco: Savings of Billions over

rail operations.

*Existing stations can be converted to bus stations or

completely eliminated. Major parking lots

avoided.

*Riders picked up at their homes and local bus stops saving

major time and cost, keeping transit riders

in a single mode, no seat change pickup and delivery transportation solution.

*Existing bus routes can be far more effectively combined

with the fixed guideway and 21st Century

Electronic Managed lanes.

*The Smart Electric vehicle guideway can support

two way traffic or two lanes reversible depending

upon traffic needs.

*21st technology Electric Cars and Buses can be driverless,

GPS controlled with extremely close nearly

bumper to bumper spacing tolerances creating large amounts

of new roadway and parking spaces.

*Smart Vehicles can see way ahead, drive around any stalled

vehicles or incident/accident. Gawker

slowdowns largely eliminated from main highways.

*Vehicle guideways, Electric Buses can be used in emergencies

to evacuate people during disasters -

rail is in disaster zones, is linear and not flexible, will lose

electric grid power and will be shut down.

20-Year-Old HART Rail

and City TOD Projections

Wrong And OUT OF DATE

The City projects that in 2030 if rail is built 7.1% of daily trips on

Oahu will be via mass transit (rail & bus),

yet if

rail is not built the City projects 5.7% of trips will be via mass

transit (just the bus). That's right, a $10 billion

project buys a 1.4% increase in mass transit use!

Table 3-12, pg 3-29

Rail Projection: Removing 200 buses from the corridor every

morning will also help with H-1 traffic

congestion. Instead, 200 Smart Electric buses will be off H-1

and on the elevated fixed guideway!

Rail would eliminate the widely used C and E express buses that

travel the Zipper lane. However, now those

routes could become Smart Electric Buses and vehicles

on the elevated fixed guideway.

The Bus has already been recognized as one of the best in the

US. Highly qualified, well trained bus drivers

already available in both the public and private sector.

Electric Buses and vehicles will employ far more than Rail which

is driverless. TheBus drivers are mostly highly

regarded for their Island Style attention to passengers, especially

the elderly and handicapped. This is an

important island cultural asset that can be retained.

Privately Operated Bike Vans

Using Smart Electric Transporters

Electric Buses and vehicles will create unique private enterprise

jobs with commuter passenger services such as

bicycle carrying passenger vans allowing the best of all possible worlds

for bikers. If weather turns bad, just call

up a bike van to take you home. Unlike rail requiring several flights of stairs,

Bike Vans can take bicyclists exactly

where they want to go at the point they prefer to bike the rest of the

way. Get anywhere in matter of minutes

using on call Smart Bike Vans. There will even be Bike Exercise Buses

(such as in Europe) which allow commuting

to work on an exercise bike while reading a book

and listening to music!

Smart electric vehicles will offer many new commuter experiences

and solutions that rail can’t and never will.

This will all appear on Social Media and create many new

entrepreneurial transit businesses.

Smart Electric buses and vehicles will do far more to environmentally

advance Hawaii 2045 renewable energy

goals than rail which will always require coal and oil fired polluting

power because of high traction power and

24/7 service demands.

Rail projects basically lie to the public that they will use renewable

solar and wind energy when in fact they just

buy credits from other renewable energy sources to

Greenwash their rail operations.

If Honolulu choses to develop a street car trolley system this

proposal would mesh together far better than a

robotic heavy rail system.

This proposal would save Honolulu from an incredible

urban blight of massive concrete.

Using 21st Century Smart Electric Vehicles over 19th Century rail

requires the City to restudy Transit Oriented

Development projections (but the City wants to remain in the 19th Century!)

Sunday, June 18, 2017

How 21st Century Honolulu Can Become Smart And Save Billions