"Ready, Fire, Aim, not again..." 'Glenn Mickens' (Special feature)

Glenn Mickens has lived on Kauai  with his wife Ruth for the last 26 years. Born July 26, 1930 in Wilmar, California, USA) was a pitcher in Major League Baseball. He pitched in four games (two of which were starts) for the 1953 Brooklyn Dodgers. He also played for five years in Japan, from 1959 until 1963 for the Kintetsu Buffaloes. There, he compiled a record of 45–53 with a 2.54 ERA.  Glenn also  served in the Army for 2 years and coached baseball at UCLA for 25 years. 
Last but not least Glenn would really like to see Kauai give the county manager style of Government a chance.

Ready , Fire, Aim, not again

Mr. Mickens is locally known
as one of Kauai county's
political watchdogs.
Mahalos Glenn!

First of all,there was a  well written article in TGI~11/15/15 "Talking Transportation"  however it does need a lot of comments and examination. 

(For those interested in reading the article click on the URL below;)
http://thegardenisland.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/talking-transportation/article_be2a616e-7e0d-5e75-93da-310fd57b8283.html

Are we really going to again "ready, fire, aim" with an issue that will waste millions of dollars of tax payers money? Those people who run our government, those who have squandered megabucks and made problems that proper planning would not have allowed, are now proposing to use an island of shuttle systems to alleviate our traffic problems.

Traffic is a huge problem on
 Kauai where the population and
 tourism has greatly increased.
The two lane highway that is really
just a road has not  changed in years.

As with all failed projects, our Kauai County Transportation planner is holding public hearings to get their input on this issue. Having been to many hearings like this over the years, it is obvious that decisions have already been made as to what will or will not be done. The hearings are basically to show that the consultants and people putting them on are earning their salaries and that the monies spent for them are justified no matter what the results.

It appears from the map in the article how much time and money developing a design and plan of where these shuttles will go has already been done. If public input were really an integral part of the planning, wouldn't the meetings be held first to see if a shuttle system is even wanted? Shouldn't a cost/usage study be done BEFORE moving forward with any costly project?

The only example of a shuttle system that was tried on Kauai was the one on the North shore (Hanalei to Ke'e beach) which proved to be a complete failure. So now we are proposing to spend millions of dollars on a mass shuttle system for all of Kauai---insanity at best!

When will those in power simply realize that people, local or tourists will not abandon their vehicles for a bike, bus, walking or a shuttle. People, the mass of them need, want and will keep their vehicles no matter what alternate means of transportation is offered to them. 

We desperately need alternate and wider roads to move around our Island to alleviate traffic problems--not the "dream world" activities mentioned above. 

We have no oversight or a responsible party to be accountable for the gross waste and inefficiency in our system. A County Manager would give us such a person so please, citizens, encourage Councilman Chock and his colleagues to let you vote on this system at next election. Those who say that our present system is not broken only need to look at the above example (AND SO MANY MORE) to know that our present system is not working.

P.S.
Check out Glenn's Wikipedia page;
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glenn_Mickens


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