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Inouye Wants to Revive Interisland Ferry
By Adrienne LaFrance 02/17/2012
Chad Blair/Civil Beat
WASHINGTON — Sen. Daniel Inouye has long been a champion of the Honolulu rail project, but these days there's another major transportation project on his mind.
"You want to know what some of my dreams are like?" Inouye said in an interview with Civil Beat earlier this month. "A reasonable ferry system that one can afford to pay (for)."
Inouye doesn't mention the now-defunct Superferry by name, but what he describes sounds a lot like the system that was shut down amid backlash from environmentalists and a subsequent state Supreme Court decision in 2009. Hawaii Superferry, Inc. went bankrupt in the months that followed.
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Inouye isn't the first to attempt to revive the ferry system. Several lawmakers have made efforts to bring back some iteration of the service in recent years. Former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann said he wanted to bring back the Superferry during his 2010 run for Hawaii governor.
More: http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2012/02/17/14894-inouye-wants-to-revive-interisland-ferry/
Chad Blair/Civil Beat
WASHINGTON — Sen. Daniel Inouye has long been a champion of the Honolulu rail project, but these days there's another major transportation project on his mind.
"You want to know what some of my dreams are like?" Inouye said in an interview with Civil Beat earlier this month. "A reasonable ferry system that one can afford to pay (for)."
Inouye doesn't mention the now-defunct Superferry by name, but what he describes sounds a lot like the system that was shut down amid backlash from environmentalists and a subsequent state Supreme Court decision in 2009. Hawaii Superferry, Inc. went bankrupt in the months that followed.
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Inouye isn't the first to attempt to revive the ferry system. Several lawmakers have made efforts to bring back some iteration of the service in recent years. Former Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann said he wanted to bring back the Superferry during his 2010 run for Hawaii governor.
More: http://www.civilbeat.com/articles/2012/02/17/14894-inouye-wants-to-revive-interisland-ferry/
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Nothing like a happy inter-island ride on a waterborne vomit comet, with protests on either end.
I don't think Uncle Dan has paddled inter-island much lately. No slur on the war wound intended.
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- and let me just add - native habitat protection and restoration! - that's our money-maker right there - without it our tourism industry is hollow.
