• The real cost of the bike path • The new American Dynasty • Understanding the pesticide atrazine • ‘Chemtrails’ in the sky The real cost of the bike path Thank you Leo for not only printing the cost numbers
• The real cost of the bike path • The new American Dynasty • Understanding the pesticide atrazine • ‘Chemtrails’ in the sky
The real cost of the bike path
Thank you Leo for not only printing the cost numbers for this “bike” path but for breaking these numbers down so that the tax payers can have a reality check on what this “White Elephant” is costing them, TGI Sept. 11, “County: $52M to complete bicycle path ‘that goes by the coast.’”
At $2,000 per two feet or $1,000 per foot (the administration’s numbers) one mile (5,280 feet) should cost $5,280,000 not the $5.04 million that they claim.
Of course, the administration has previously said that the 6.8 miles of completed path cost about $31 million or $4.55 million per mile but why quibble about a million here or there?
The biggest erroneous number that is being propagandized to the public is the $52 million to complete the 23.8 miles.
Using administration numbers of $5.04 million per mile it has cost $34.29 million for the completed 6.8 miles, and at that cost it would cost $85.7 million for the remaining 17 miles or a total cost of $120 million. This far exceeds the $52 million given by the administration.
A council member said that the path’s cost for the 6.8 miles was higher due to the path’s going over a couple of bridges. This does not agree with the Department of Transportation numbers.
The Department of Transportation (DOT) passed out spread sheets at one of their meetings showing a breakdown cost of over $60 million for the segment of path from Nawiliwili to Lydgate park, real numbers showing planning, design, right of ways and construction.
Thus this “fuzzy” math showing a total cost of $52 million is half the cost of using Department of Transportation and their own numbers — why? Numbers don’t lie but liars do use numbers!
Glenn Mickens
Kapa‘a
The new American Dynasty
I wish more people would wake up to realize the new reality in America today. The reality that we are slowly losing the democracy we fought and died for to a few who never stepped foot on a battlefield. The rest of us should be very angry because our Supreme Court handed these people absolute power to control our country’s destiny. The new American Dynasty of our wealthiest 1 percent.
There was a time when fair elections were the very foundation of our democracy. But lately, the new American Dynasty has been very busy helping a growing number of states pass laws to desecrate that sacred process. Historically, the percentage of our voting population has been alarmingly low due to political apathy and ignorance. There is no better time in our history to plot and steal elections with an unlimited amount of cash.
If we American’s would just increase our level of political awareness to see past the lies, I am sure more of us would turn out to vote. That simple right we take for granted. It does not matter which political party we associate ourselves with. We are all Americans first, second to none. We could proudly take America back from those who would steal it from us. The new American Dynasty would keep their money with the realization they’d only be wasting it.
We need “politically neutral” policies in place that are designed to educate and ultimately protect the electorate from those seeking to buy public office. Unfortunately, that would require another letter.
Vince Cosner
Lihu‘e
Understanding the pesticide atrazine
It is important for readers to understand that the protest sign in the front page photo of the Sept. 18 issue TGI that reads “Atrizine [sic] turns males into females” refers to a study done on a specific species of frog.
Atrazine, a common pesticide or “weed killer,” has been used in farming for decades (around 25 years before the first genetically modified crop was ever created) and research has shown that it has many harmful effects on human health. But it won’t turn a man into a woman.
Aaron Nakamura
Kapa‘a
‘Chemtrails’ in the sky
In a recent letter about “chemtrails” (TGI Letter to the Editor printed on Sept. 12), I presented my credentials and experience that support an informed opinion on the impossibility of this hoax existing within any of the many facets of aviation today. There is also no rational motivation or physical/logistical practicality to what is proposed in the hoax.
There are many people more qualified and better equipped than I, who look at or detect what is in the sky daily and when we do, we know what it is we’re looking at.
In her response (TGI Letter to the Editor printed on Sept. 18), Mrs. Bettejo Dux wrote, in brief, that she looks to the sky, she see things, and she doesn’t know what they are.
I want to personally thank Mrs. Dux for providing the easiest argument anyone has ever won. My long, long wait is finally at an end.
Pete Antonson
Lawa‘i/Manila
