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I'd agree on too many cars, but Oahu can easily support 7 million people if properly planned - as an example, look at Hong Kong.
I appreciate your love for Hong Kong? Or at least understand why you like the city. But question? Why make oahu into another Hong Kong? Why don't you just move to Hong Kong?
I just don't understand the mindset. Why must the romans no matter where they go, try to create rome in every city they go? Maybe someday you would be so kind as to explain this to me? Each city should have there own character or feel. JMHO.
True, Hong Kong is an island which has a huge density of population, but they are very, very close to the mainland. For that matter, so is New York. How many daily barges of supplies would be needed to support seven million on Oahu? I would suspect seven million living on Oahu would also be horrendously expensive because of the length of the supply chain. But, from the looks of things, they're heading that way.
Kakaako is being built up and folks living there would be able to walk to downtown Honolulu, so perhaps Kakaako will take some of the commuters off the roads. If they could figure out how to have folks live where they work, a lot of that traffic would disappear. Maybe hotels should have a portion of the rooms set aside for the workers?
I also wonder about the density of the soil and construction of the size of buildings it would take to house seven million. Although they manage some pretty large buildings now. Buildings have a lifespan, what happens at the end of the lifespan of a huge building like that? I'd expect it would be torn down and a new one built, but what happens to the tenants of the old building? Buying a condo is like buying a box in the sky. What happens when the box falls out of the sky?
I also wonder about the density of the soil and construction of the size of buildings it would take to house seven million. Although they manage some pretty large buildings now. Buildings have a lifespan, what happens at the end of the lifespan of a huge building like that? I'd expect it would be torn down and a new one built, but what happens to the tenants of the old building? Buying a condo is like buying a box in the sky. What happens when the box falls out of the sky?
Good luck using reason and logic here. You and I are the only ones on this forum that understand steel reinforced concrete structures have finite lifespans. Everyone else here is confident they last forever.
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