• Walter Lewis is right • Deja vu, the trail is good for you • Build youth facilities on the Westside Walter Lewis is right Thank you again, Walter Lewis for your vividly accurate account of the many problems that
• Walter Lewis is right • Deja vu, the trail is good for you • Build youth facilities on the Westside
Walter Lewis is right
Thank you again, Walter Lewis for your vividly accurate account of the many problems that face and have faced our county, some for years.
Issues like the unacceptable proliferation of Tourist Vacation Accommodations (TVAs) all over our island; the potential 500 percent tax increase on properties that those in the lower class would be hardest hit; the Kilauea leaky gym roof debacle that has been going on for 18 years; the outrageous cost of the multi-use path ($5.2 million per mile) that has no oversight for federal or local funds being spent on it; the perpetual bickering of the Council with the Administration when no one from the Administration shows up to address an issue that has been on the agenda for a week in advance; or for someone from the Administration to come to the meeting unprepared to answer agenda questions.
Mr. Lewis does an excellent job with his summary of some basic problems of our county:
“I believe the members of the Council are all good people but subservience, lack of technical assistance, inadequate legal advice and some fiscal irresponsibility have too frequently flawed their collective work.”
Of those we elected or those who have been appointed, how can any of them take exception with those fine words of wisdom? They came from a man who was a lawyer his entire life and his sole interest in making these suggested changes happen are for one purpose only — for making this a better Kaua‘i for everyone.
Glenn Mickens
Kapa‘a
Deja vu, the trail is good for you
Does anyone else have the strangest of feeling of deja vu concerning Glenn Micken’s latest letter to the editor, “The path will fail” (Jan. 15)?
Dear Mr. Mickens, The multi-use trail was never intended for the businessman carrying a brief case walking or bicycling to work. The intention is a for an alternative means of not only getting from point A to point B, but for exercise, play time, physical therapy time, tourism and an alternative way to get around the island during emergencies.
I will repeat myself in saying the multi-use trail is the best use of taxpayer monies ever on Kaua’i. I see thousands of people from physically challenged people in wheelchairs, mothers with strollers, skateboarders, roller bladers, dog walkers, power walkers, visitors riding rental bicycles and off to the side many people practicing yoga, tai chi and hula. Many people live in cramped quarters and this pedestrian trail is an extension of everyone’s backyard.
Did you know many cities and counties have concessions along their trail systems as a source of revenues to help maintain their trail systems? Kaua’i could do the same and make the trail a money-making venture.
I agree we need more roads too, with less than 260 miles of paved roads on Kaua‘i soon there will be no place to drive— just bumper-to-bumper traffic.
I do not know where you get your 1 percent of the population uses the trail, you are pulling numbers out of your hat, therefore I will venture and do the same and believe that 94.5 percent of the population is in favor of this federally-funded trail system.
I have the strangest feeling of deja vu and also have a future deja vu vibe telling me you will keep repeating the same dogma from now to eternity. Therefore I will do the same and say, “Deja vu, deja vu, deja vu, the pedestrian trail is good for you!”
James “Kimo” Rosen
Kapa‘a
Build youth facilities on the Westside
Mayor Carvalho, when are you guys going to be fair and build something for our youths on the Westside? You have a new and improved skate park on the Eastside.
Enough already! Build something here on the Westside for the youths, too.
On another thought, too many activities there will bring more traffic.
Try sharing the wealth, mayor.
Howard Tolbe
‘Ele‘ele
