Letter: Skyline money better spent on infrastructure
Mar 19, 2026
Multiple Star-Advertiser articles in recent days admirably demonstrate how throwing more money at the $10 billion-plus Skyline remains ill-advised. Saturday’s newspaper demonstrated how fragile and dilapidated is Oahu’s transport infrastructure (“Hawaii’s infrastructure vulnerabilities expos
ed”). This infrastructure is used by the whole island, as opposed to the one-fifth of Oahu that can use Skyline, which generously hosts 4,000 to 5,000 riders per day (not rides per day, assuming most people make round trips). ...read more read less