If you think the point of building a railway is to make driving easier, you're unclear on the concept https://www.citylab.com/transportation/2017/07/honolulus-rapid-transit-crisis/534150/ …
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Replying to @380kmh
Does the NYC subway make it easier to drive in New York? No, but it gives people a different way to navigate the city--THAT'S what it's for
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Would traffic in NYC be much worse without the subway? I doubt it, simply because traffic is already close to saturation there--however...
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...w/o subway, NYC would *ONLY* be able to handle as much traffic as its roads support--the subway dramatically increases city's capacity
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Now, Honolulu's project may just be ill-conceived (and I have no doubt that the cost is wildly inflated, as is usually the case in USA)...
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...but whatever its problems, "failing to alleviate congestion" isn't one of them.
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