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FRIDAY, APRIL 27 to SUNDAY, APRIL 29, 2012 VOLUME 106 ISSUE 95
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The City and County of Honolulu has proposed a series of bus route changes that will go into effect this summer. Among them is a change to route 4, meaning that next year, students who catch the bus from Waikīkī will have to change their route. “I’m very concerned about if they don’t come to Waikīkī anymore, then I need to maybe … transfer buses to come to UH,” said Sakiko Sugihara, a psychology major who lives in Waikīkī and rides the bus to school. If the proposed changes go through, route 4 will terminate at the McCully/Kalākaua stop, instead of going into Waikīkī as it now does. Another proposed change would hopefully make up for this: Route 13,
which currently circles through the Kapahulu area, would continue on to Kaimukī High School, Kapi‘olani Community College, and then up University Avenue and along Dole Street.
B E T T E R BA L A N C E? Even with the changes to route 13, some have reacted negatively. “I have noticed how crowded that bus gets (to unhealthy levels in my opinion) and have actually requested TheBus add another bus in those
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peak hours,” said Paul Perretta, a community member who comes to the UH campus to do research, in an email. “Now we are told that route 4 will no longer go through Waikīkī, where many UH students have dorms – not forgetting the Makiki, Mānoa folk who work in Waikīkī.” Glenn Moir, a transit operations planner for Honolulu, said that the changes will hopefully provide more balance to the area. “Some of it is just a way of trying to improve service and answer re-
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quests. Residents there [in Waikīkī] have always asked to have better Kapahulu access. In other cases, there’s been requests that would allow for direct connection between KCC and Mānoa,” he said.
NO RAIL CONNECTION Moir responded to concerns that TheBus was cutting service because money is going to the rail project instead. “Basically no, money from TheBus cannot go to rail and rail can’t go to TheBus,” he said, adding, “From an operational standpoint, if it [rail] is built and fully operational, then TheBus can do other things.” But funding is a factor in the changes. “We’ve got rising costs; we’ve got a very limited budget. Some of this is designed to try to save some money if we can do it … so that we don’t have to be faced with increasing the fares or cutting service,” said Moir. For a schedule of community meetings about the proposed changes, and more information on routes, visit http://www1. honolulu.gov/dts/ bus+service+route+ changes.htm.
WEEKEND EVENTS Spam Jam, Eat the Street and the Hawai‘i World Class Wedding Expo
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