In a couple of weeks Honolulu will host APEC (Asian-Pacific Economic Cooperation).
As its gotten closer, the news has been filed with new articles about how this is going
to affect all of us. What roads will be closed, parts of the airport being given a face-lift,
court cases being moved from downtown to other courts around the island, events being
cancelled because there won't be any extra police/sheriff officers (they will all be working
on APEC), etc, etc, etc.
I've read these articles with interest, but they really don't have any affect
on us out here since the majority of the people will be staying in town.
I've been following the controversy of the Nimitz Hiway palms. If you've ever driven from the
airport to Waikiki and not gone on the freeway, you've gone along Nimitz Hiway.
There are parts of it that are industrial and then it goes along the harbor, skirts downtown past car
dealerships, small local food stands and then changes into Ala Moana Blvd. around Ala Moana
Beach Park.
Around the harbor area there's a median strip down the center, this is where the guys selling
newspapers stand. And its this area that has lead to numerous articles. In an effort to "spruce-up"
Nimitz, the C&C has planted coco palms and laid sod in the median.
Honolulu is an urban area, but it's not lacking beautiful trees. Kapiolani Blvd. is shaded
with huge trees, there are shower trees downtown, Kuhio Blvd. in Waikiki has beautiful trees.
Now we have the Nimitz palms.
They are nice to look at, hope they don't die in the next 2 weeks (which is one concern),
If they really were moved from one vacant area to Nimitz and didn't cost much, that's OK.
They really do add something. Isn't a coconut palm one of the things visitors
expect to see in Hawaii.
Only one problem that I can see...
how are they going to move all of the homeless and their tent cities
off the sidewalks or from under the shade of the palms?
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And not to mention the cost of pruning those things so the coconuts don't hit someone on the head or someones car. they have to be trimmed semi annually and about $70 a tree....that adds up...but I do think they are beautiful and I don't mind money being spent on beauty. They really do add something to an area that had pretty much nothing but buildings to look at while driving. Sounds good to me.
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