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Originally Posted by Cirrus
Honolulu's issue is that it's an El Paso or Birmingham AL-sized urbanized area with the transit needs of a Seattle. They should have a Metro and it should be roughly along this corridor (though with fewer western stops and more eastern ones). But because it's a small city and because US infrastructure is way more expensive than it should be, they can't really afford it.
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This is precisely a situation where the feds need to take mass transit more seriously and fund it as we do freeways. Where cities can't pay for it yet the need exists, we as a country need to fund it for the greater good.