I’m someone who has just in the past couple months gone to commuting entirely on a bicycle. There isn’t much infrastructure to favor it.
While there’s a beautiful bike path from Aloha Stadium to the Waipahu dump, it fails to connect to Ewa, though there is an overgrown path not easily traversed.
Government initiatives to keep cyclists away from motor vehicles would be of great use in drawing more of the citizenry. Once accessible, it would be appropriate to discuss bicycle sharing as a viable business.
Harlan Kanoa Sheppard
Ewa Beach
Column about homeless has potential for harm
Who’s a human being? Froma Harrop thinks she knows. It’s not the homeless, whom she labels “dysfunctional humans” who “live in their filth” (“Letting homeless degrade quality of life serves no one,” Star-Advertiser, July 2).
Never mind that, by definition, being homeless means being without access to a bathroom in one’s own home. And disregard the 2008 crash, after which 5 million homeowners in America faced foreclosure. It’s the fault of the homeless themselves, according to Harrop.
Harrop’s unilateral allegations can have poisonous and harmful effects on men, women and children, about whom none of her readers know.
Thirty percent of the homeless in Hawaii are working.
Susan Liang
Waikiki
Vacation rentals should be legal property use
House Bill 1850 would simplify and ensure taxes get paid to the state, yet Gov. David Ige says no?
Ostensibly, Ige’s reservations have to do with the city being hampered in its efforts to shut down vacation rental businesses in Hawaii doing business illegally.
For more than 170 years, Hawaii has been housing visitors, for pay, in boarding houses. It’s time to weigh the benefits of all decisions, and let the city police victimless crimes.
The vocal minority have the mayor’s ear, and now the governor’s as well? They have bamboozled the people of Hawaii like they did with the rail transit project.
Quite simply, they are trying to destroy the private property rights of the locals here, and our largest and cleanest industry that demands these accommodations.
Rob Burns
Aina Haina
Kudos to ‘Hawaii boys’ at Olympic swim trials
I just wanted to congratulate all of the Hawaii boys who were invited and participated in the 2016 U.S. Olympic Swim Trials, which I was honored to attend.
These boys have grown up swimming against each other in Hawaii and have maintained contact and their friendships, as they have graduated and moved on to college. At each event they could be seen supporting each other.
Kudos to Chase Bloch, Renny Richmond, Makoa Keala Haneberg, Micah Ornellas, Aukai Lileikis and Kanoa Kaleoaloha. It was truly an honor to watch each of them and see how much they’ve grown.
I expect to return to Omaha in four years and see each of them again in 2020. They made Hawaii proud.
Lizette Haneberg
Hawaii Kai
