bobludlow

Looks like I might have been wrong about the Super Ferry. Local airlines, freight carriers, and unions have all discovered an environmental conscience and are pushing through a law that would require the Super Ferry (and the Super Ferry alone) to complete a lengthy and onerous environmental impact statement that will force them to default on their agreement with their shipbuilder - thereby putting the company out of business. The local legislature appears to be following along in an attempt to make the governor look bad. So in the end we won't have cheap and easy interisland traffic (for tourists, locals, high school athletic teams...). We won't have fresher local produce (Wainaku corn, Waimea lettuce, mmmmmmm). And we will get gouged by mainland rental car agencies every time we visit friends on another island.

Now I am as ecologically conscious as the next Gen Y-er, but these ferries will have modern diesel engines, they will offload all garbage and sewage at the dock, and the company even plans to change their routes every Fall to avoid shallow places where humpback whales congregate.

I'm pissed off that we now might not be getting this ferry that could make visiting AND living in Hawaii so much better.