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UH students and faculty have completed a 1,000 hour study on mass transit in Honolulu and have come up with some alternatives to the rail system proposed by the city government. UH studied the rail plan and found that the system will only reduce travel times by roughly 3%, far below expectations.

One of the traffic alternatives is to build underpasses or small tunnels at the busiest intersections in Honolulu to allow free flowing traffic to continue on the surface streets. Another alternative is to build high occupancy toll lanes or hot lanes. It would allow vehicles with five or more people to travel for free while other users would have to pay a toll. UH predicts that it would relieve travel times and congestion on the H-1 freeway at the busiest times by up 34%. The rail system, meanwhile, only reduces travel time by 3%.

The cost for all of the projects is well below the projected $5 billion for the rail system. Building high occupancy lanes or, HOT lanes could built with minimum cost and be paid for by tolls for users of the system. The proposed underpasses at busy downtown intersections would cost only $50 million and yield the same time savings as the rail systems at a fraction of the cost. In response to the UH study, Mayor Mufi Hannemann has said that the money already raised for the transit system cannot be diverted to highway projects and that the costs involved in road work is much higher than stated