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Public swimming pools are closed in Kailua, Salt Lake, Kailua and Waipahu district parks due to repairs in the works. That’s unfortunate, but everybody knows pool pump mishaps happen. Swimmers can still get in workouts and get some cool relief from hot-and-humid weather at other district parks across the island. The city maintains more than 20 pools in five districts.
The Waipahu pool, which is undergoing renovations as well as repairs, is slated to re-open this summer. Let’s hope. The others are closed until further notice — which doesn’t bode well, especially with the hot months coming.
More information about Oahu’s pool locations is available online, www.honolulu.gov/parks/default/pool-locations.html.
How those e-buses really performed
Don’t be afraid to be totally honest.
That’s the lesson from the city’s test of an electric bus on routes around Oahu. After praising the performance of the bus — “No one really had anything negative to say,” said Jon Nouchi, deputy director of the city Department of Transportation Services — the city quickly changed its story after a Star-Advertiser reader described how the bus struggled on an uphill grade on H-2.
Nouchi then revealed that the battery-powered bus also had difficulty climbing the Pali Highway, and did not maintain air conditioning as well as the regular buses.
Important to know, especially if the city intends to buy electric buses down the road. No one should have unrealistic expectations from such a test. But the public at least should know the real results.
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