Honolulu Mass Transit

The Trust for America's Health projected that during a worldwide cataclysm of a flu pandemic, that the economic impact for Hawai'i state would be $3.6 billion dollars. The city and county of Honolulu $5 billion dollar transit project would have an even greater economic impact for the island of Oahu. Although money will be had with so many federal dollars pouring in, it seems that most of the money will not trickle down within the local economy.

Perhaps state law requiring that all restaurants have public bathrooms in order to wash hands before eating can mitigate the spread of the flu during a pandemic. Current Hawaii state law requires only those with a liquor license must have public hygiene facilities.

Washing one hands before eating is an easy answer if there is a essential accommodations for human within the public infrastructure. The solution for all the problems that the railroad will bring won't be as simple to extract oneself from once erection is already underway. Real estate speculation is the most obvious one, but good fortune can sometimes bring it's own problems.

Hawaii's has an incredible low unemployment rate of 2.2 percent. The imported mainland workers working per diem or at a higher corridor of pay than locals will turn raise Honolulu's rental rate at a even more higher into the stratosphere. At the bottom rung, the most precariously housed population will become housing refugees at the emergency transitional shelter that Governer Linda Lingle officially opened on Mar 16, 2007.

Volcanic ash was used in ancient Roman cement and modern Portland cement. In the words of Tim Dolen, a pozzolana expert and research civil engineer at the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, "the pozzolana was calcined by the volcano," enabling it to chemically react with calcium hydroxide in slaked lime, requiring no heat."