Are The Bus cuts or upcoming cuts impacting you? (buy, cost)

[whtviper1]

Seems like on the news almost everyday they keep talking about The Bus cuts - the first round happening last month - and the next big cuts starting in August. Seems to impact everything from downtown to the east side and hitting Waikiki particularly hard.

Lady on the news tonight - "the city is making me buy a car"

I'm wondering - is this having a material impact on anyone or just overblown hype on the news?

Asking as I hire a lot of people that generally rely on public transportation as we don't provide parking and wondering that the impact is if any - I may consider employee parking packages as a perk but resist not so much for the cost as putting more cars on the road.

[Joliefille]

It doesn't affect us, but my husband has said that he's seen an increase in tardies since they cut some of the bus routes. His company has a strict tardie policy that they are having to adjust due to the bus issues.