Beep, beep — more bikes coming through

Honolulu is apparently feeling the love of Biki — enough affection, at least, to warrant a fleet expansion of the bike-rental service.

This week BikeShare Hawaii announced plans to add about 40 new docking stations to the 100 that already occupy largely former street parking stalls at key locations in the urban core.

This continues to raise hackles among Biki’s critics, one of them being City Councilwoman Ann Kobayashi. She observed the nonprofit is not paying for the docking space on city property. True — but no law reserves all public street space for private cars, either.

Let’s hope Pruitt’s exit bodes better for environment

Ridding the Environmental Protection Agency of its embattled leader, Scott Pruitt, bodes well for preserving country’s natural resources. The former Oklahoma attorney general spent most of his one-year tenure as EPA administrator working to dismantle regulations that aimed to reduce toxic pollution and planet-warming carbon emissions.

Pruitt has scoffed at climate science and the Paris climate agreement. He resigned Thursday amid mounting ethics investigations on matters ranging from excessive spending on security to a sweetheart condo lease. Let’s hope his replacement is not a recycled version of the same.