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  1. Lee

    Hawaii’s problems have many roots.
    Over tourism: too many hotels, too many tourists for the infrastructure. They need to stop building new ones till the roads get widen, new ones built. But it’s all about money.
    Roads/traffic
    Road to Hana traffic is bad. So is the Main roads in Honolulu. Locals take 60-90 minutes to travel back and forth to work and home. I take the bus on Ohau. Forget the rental. Maui traffic is bad too and now Kaua’i is terrible!! Spent 4 weeks their this winter, traffic fron Kappa to Lihue 45 minutes and it’s just a few miles. Trying to get to the west sise on a Friday night, took us 2 hours and didn’t go back again.
    Homeless
    Yes you can find the problem on all the islands, you just have to look around. Local government I feel does its best but if people don’t want or can’ t work what do we do? Living under a tarp in feyis better than in a box in any northern mainland state.
    Local costs
    Generally every thing seems to cost so much more in Hawaii. I’ttold it’ An island, you have to ship everything in. Sorry still doesn’t explain it. So much goods come from the Far East, Hawaii is half the distance to California so the freight should be less. Even if it went to California first then reshipped to Hawaii the cost had to be cheaper then going by trucks loading and unloading especially to the east coast. I can find many things for the same or even less than in my home town, but alm the rest is just crazy. Costo’s large pizza is the same price here like in Hawaii.
    Well I’ve gotten off subject, sorry.
    Hawaii is great, but it has the same issues we gave on the mainland.
    Thousands of people go every day expect issues, be realistic and plan. Now with lower airfares expect more.

    1. Bob B

      Sorry the trashing I saw on the West side of Oahu was not tourists…… it is people who live there and are supposedly caring about the land…

  2. Sue

    Spent 10 days in Maui a month ago. Kihei and Wailea had clean beaches, just beautiful. Baby Beach in Lahaina was sadly overrun with garbage and recycling (no larger resorts here). I think there may have been a homeless community there. I told a family member that lives in Maui about it and they were going to report it to Island Care Group. We were shocked how many storefronts and buildings stood empty, too.

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