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From: "Edward Huls" <dancingbear@...>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 00:36:18 -0500
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Subject: Crunch time!...

> My fellow bicyclists and friends of bicycling~
>
> I've just come out of an emergency meeting called by Cheryl Soon of DTS ~
there were several of us there representing the Mayor's Advisory Committee on
Bicycling(MACB) ~ glaringly absent was anyone from U.H. Manoa Bicycling
Committee(UHMBC) or Sierra Club...
>
> Cheryl, and Chris Sayers, called this meeting because of the recent actions
taken by the Young St. Coalition, a group of mostly business owners along Young
St., locked into a car-consciousness who, for various reasons, wish to block our
vision of the renovation of Young St. into a bicycle-safe street with calming
devices ~ their main reason seems to be economics, as none of them really ride a
bicycle, all of them bow before the "automobile altar", and all are
profit-driven money-changers, disconnected from Nature and from planetary
healing...
>
> The group is headed-up by the most vocal and vicious ogre, Francis Kaneshiro,
who owns a chain of parking lots, one of them fronting Young St. ~ in Francis'
mind, our proposed renovation of Young St. into a bicycle-friendly thoroughfare,
replete with calming devices and a "greenway", will cut into his bottom-line
profit ~ he has gone to great lengths to create a "flyer" which he has
distributed at Zippy's and other popular spots ~ this flyer is filled with
untruths and misinformation upon which the 1300 petitioners made their
determination and signed their names ~ untruths about our design-plan not
allowing for left-turns from driveways (which it does), not including
"loading-zones" in front of the First Chinese Church of Christ and Goodwill
(which it does), and that our design plan, by including bike-paths, narrows the
street for automobile traffic (which it does not!) along with other deceptions
and falsehoods...
>
> Kaneshiro's misdirected accusations have caused City Council, in particular
Councilmen Tam, Cachola, and Dela Cruz, to create "proviso language" which says
that no money shall be spent on Young St. until there is concurrance between the
Young St. Coalition (Kaneshiro's group), HBL, the Sierra Club, and Neighborhood
board No.10 ~ our bicycle-friendly, and unfortunately on-his-way-out Mayor,
Jeremy Harris, as vetoed this "proviso language" (hurray Jeremy, I'd vote for
you for one more term) ~ City Council however, will hold a meeting to over-ride
that veto sometime early next week...
>
> The plot thickens ~ tomorrow, Wed. June 23rd @ 2:30 p., City Council will meet
and vote on several resolutions including #04-187 which states:
>
> "We urge the City Administration to prepare an environmental impact statement
E.I.S. for the Young Street Park Boulevard project to determine its economic
effects and any infrastructure problems that may be caused by the project.
>
> Be it further resolved that in order to ensure traffic and pedestrian safety
and minimize impacts to businesses, the design and construction of the project's
bike lanes and sidewalk and drainage improvements be agreed upon by the Young
St. Coaliton, which City Council officially recognizes as a representative of
the residents, property owners, and business owners of Young St., and by
Neigborhood Board No. 10, the Hawaii Bicycling League, and the City
Administartion; and
>
> Be it finally resolved that copies of this resolution be transmitted to the
mayor, the managing director of transportation services, the Young St. Coalition
at 1040 Southing Sreet, Suite 305, Honolulu, Hawaii 96814, the Hawaii Bicycling
League at 3442 Waialae Avenue, Suite 1, Honolulu, Hawaii 96816, and Neighborhood
Board No. 10."
>
> This resolution has been signed by Tam, Cachola, and Dela Cruz and they are
looking to win over the remaining councilmembers ~ here is a real opportunity to
see how the Chairperson, Ann Kobayashi from my district of Manoa, really alligns
herself, with Truth and Integrity or otherwise...
>
> We must all show up there tomorrow, in force, and all of us must give
testimony (3 min.) in oppositon to this ~ if you cannot show in person then
please phone, fax, e-mail your councilmember/representative and tell him or her
of your displeasure with this covertly-measured tactic to throw a roadblock on
all of our hard work for the past 5 yrs. ~ and each year, the Young St. Project
has been voted down for one reason or another ~ usually due to lack of funds in
the City's coffer ~ this year however, our good Mayor Jeremy made certain that
there was an extra $1.2 million to be designated specifically to begin the Young
St. Project-Phase I from Victoria St. to Pensacola ~ and now, that may be
destroyed...
>
> Francis Kaneshiro is a bitter old man whose reasons for doing what he is doing
are arguable ~ perhaps he was never given a bicycle as a child ~ or perhaps
along with owning multiple parking lots, his family owns car dealerships ~ I can
only determkine that he is struggling with early onset of both Dementia and
Alzheimers!...
>
> As John Kelley of H.B.L. concluded at the end of this afternoon's one-hour
meeting, that if Young St. is denied this time around, all our hopes and
aspirations of realizing the Master Bicyle Plan, the "Lei of Parks", and having
Honolulu become a bicycle-friendly city will be dashed-up against the rocks ~ we
will have lost all of our momentum...
>
> Many ploys and strategies were discussed at today's meeting, all of them solid
~ my hat goes off to Cheryl Soon as she showed such passion, leadership, and
common sense in attempting to salvage this noble and worthy project ~ a project
which will help relax and calm the City County of Honolulu that is presently,
more than ever before, experiencing over-crowded streets, hiways & freeways ~ a
project that will lessen the polluting of the air that we breathe, and help to
curb the turning an entire population into obese, sedentary, un-exercised,
unconscious humans ~ all this exacerbated by a mental and emotional
disorder/disease never before experienced by man (and woman), that of
"road-rage"!...
>
> Today, there is no more time ~ we have within this week to turn the tide ~
come tomorrow to Honolulu Hale 2nd flr. @ 2:30 and sign-up to speak ~ it has to
be a show of numbers! ~ let City Council hear our collective voice ~ do not wait
til tomorrow on this one becuase tomorrow is too late ~ it's crunch time!...
>
> Peace ~Edward/ Mo'PoB (More People on Bikes) ~ One Less Car ~
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