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Against the flow: Cayetano talks transit, UH DAVIN AOYAGI Editor in Chief
mer governor Benjamin Cayetano Former gathers media attention as the sole candidate d to rail, but his alternatives to the rail opposed project and his views on the university’s role for lu County are less known. Honolulu ving retired from the state’s highest ofHaving fice in 2002, Cayetano sat down with Ka Leo for nute interview on rail, rail alternatives a 60-minute and the university.
needs. He pointed out that by 2030, Honolulu’s population will have increased by an additional 100,000 people, and that rail would not achieve its intended purpose. “I would tell a UH student to go on-
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Cayetano, yetano, who announced his candidacy yor on Jan. 19, was motivated by his for mayor tion to rail. opposition ne reason why I came out of retirement “One is that I didn’t like what I saw happening in the ayetano said. “I thought the spending city,” Cayetano was veryy reckless, and I really feel that the rail system is something we can’t afford.” e rail project is expected to stretch from The West O‘ahu ‘ahu to Ala Moana Center. If ted, it will cost the City completed, ounty of Honoand County .2 billion, aclulu $5.2 g to the ofcording ebsite for ficial website olulu Rail the Honolulu Transit Project. yetano, Cayetano, r, stated however, that the cost will ser to be closer on. $7 billion. He said that rail fails to adodress Honolulu’ss f ut ure trans on portation
line [and] Google this stuff ... [They’ll] fi nd it won’t reduce traffic congestion ... The city had to admit this as well,” Cayetano said. Cayetano also criticized rail due to the locations it will service. “The fi rst thing that all students know is that it will probably never go s to Mānoa. The reason is that the Mānoa spur would cost about $1.8 billion in addition to what’s already on the table.” grow Cayetano dismissed the potential job growth projections due to the rail project, stating tthat, “The city says 10,000 jobs a year. What does the University of Hawai‘i economics departm department say? 2,000 [jobs] for the entire project.”
Cayetano referred to a 2003 Envir Environmental Impact Statement as a basis for his alternative transit plan. According to Cayetano, the EIS stated that an expanded bus rapid transit (BRT) sys system was better than rail for three main reaso reasons: “First, it was less costly. [Second] ... the ridership riders was forecasted to be a little higher than ra rail ... t Third, it’s much more flexible so, they try routes, it doesn’t work out, and you can change. O Once you build rail, that’s it, you’re stuck with it it.” See Cayetano, page 2
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Cayetano served two terms as Hawai‘i’s governor from 1994-2002. Cayetano acknowledged that he was unsure of the number of buses that would be added under the BRT system to the 530 buses currently in operation, but said that there may be a reallocation of those existing buses via establishing a dedicated bus lane in the existing infrastructure. In response to whether a dedicated bus lane pulled from an existing lane would increase traffic, Cayetano said, “You got these two systems. You know from the studies – two studies – that they achieve about the same kind of ridership. You know that this one may take an existing lane, you grant that. ... But take a look at what the rail does: ... it’s much more expensive [and] it really changes the profi le of the city.” Cayetano was unable to provide any current figures about the cost of the bus rapid transit project. “We haven’t calculated that right now. But … let’s even that up with a 20 percent increase; [it’s] still far less than rail,” Cayetano said.
UNIONS AND THE UNIVERSITY Cayetano felt that the Travel Industry Management department on campus exemplified the university’s role as an economic generator. “The TIM school is a good example [of how the university supports Honolulu]. We’re a tourism-industry-based
economy, and the University provides that sort of research and training.” His suggested improvements for the university include raising admission requirements for students. He explained, “Mānoa is a research university. I went to UCLA, and in California, you can’t get into the UC system unless you’re in the top 12 percent. ... I think UH Mānoa, which is a research university, should adjust its standards and guys like me who nearly flunked out of high school … [should look to] the community colleges and West O‘ahu. ... The University of Hawai‘i [at Mānoa] will flourish if the students who are freshmen don’t have issues with remedial writing and all that, because a lot of the professors complain about that.” Cayetano also advised that faculty members should not be allowed to both be a part of a union and hold tenure. “Either the faculty should have tenure or have the union, not this double protection, because then you can’t get out the professors who are not quite up to par – and I’m sure that you folks run into some of them,” said Cayetano.
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Stadium was constructed prior to the 1998 season. UH has just approved $2.4 million dollars for the redesign of a new softball stadium. “I was also told that I would never see it in my lifetime,” Coolen said. “It’s kind of frustrating that I will be involved in the design of it, but I won’t see the fruition of that design. It’s great that they afforded [$2.4 million] for a new design to make it state-of-the-art so we can compete with a BCS [Baseball Championship Series] program.” Coolen fi nished his 21st season as head coach and 23rd season in the program. He is the winningest coach in program history and the only coach to take the team to the NCAA Tournament. Across the street of the softball stadium stands the Les Murakami Stadium. The stadium was built in 1984 as the Rainbow Stadium and was renamed in 2001 to honor the man who was responsible for its inception. “It won’t be named after me,” Coolen laughed. “I’m a visitor to this island and I was told that early and often when I came here. It would be a great legacy for me to be the winningest coach. I don’t need a stadium to be named after me.”
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Coolen’s players also see a side of him outside of softball. “He definitely comes off as a great dad,” junior outfielder Brynne Buchanan said. “We all have a great relationship. He’s very welcoming to girls, especially those who are not from the islands – always opening up his home for Thanksgiving. He really looks out for us, and I think he does a great job with his kids too.”
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