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Originally Posted by aquablue
Does anybody feel the elevated line is ugly and not suited to a town like Honolulu?
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Not really. The soils under Honolulu are poor for building subways, so that leaves surface lines or elevated guideways. Honolulu is on a mountainous volcanic island, there really isn't a lot of vacant flat land available for transportation. Building transit above the streets makes sense.
Additionally, Hawaii has very strict laws about ancient burial grounds that are unmarked, Digging up bones is taken seriously and causes delays, the less digging you do the quicker your project gets completed.