Bikes, cars squeeze onto McCully Street

The addition of the first mauka-makai spur in the city’s embryonic bike-lane network is a welcome one to those wanting a practical cycling route through urban Honolulu. But the new McCully Street two-way bikeway does come at a cost: 30 substandard-sized street parking stalls.

Bike-lane proponents say the stalls were wedged in there, to the point that cars parking in them sometimes got sideswiped. So yes, on balance, the new lanes at least nudges Honolulu toward less dependence on cars.

But people were willing to risk car damage to park there — which says we’re still pretty dependent.

Mary Tyler Moore, an icon for today’s woman

There was a time when smart, powerful women in the workplace was a relative rarity. That’s why Mary Tyler Moore, in her namesake 1970s show portraying an executive in a TV newsroom, became so beloved as a feminist icon. She was an admired career woman, and single at that, in addition to being smart, powerful, classy, witty, kind and yes, spunky. (Fans will appreciate that last allusion.) Seeing that role model on national TV weekly helped that role become a norm in reality.

Actress Moore died Wednesday at age 80, and hearing her name again reminds us how far working women have come — and given the current political climate, how much more can be done.