Letter for Thursday, February 6, 2020

Too many rental cars

There are too many rental cars around Kaua‘i. Rental car companies should be limited on purchasing cars for rent.

We workers who use the roads to accomplish our mission on a timely schedule are being slowed by too many tourists driving vehicles. They (tourists) need to realize that we are not on vacation like them. For example, I drive up to Koke‘e area four times a week and only have a small window to get my job done. While travelling up there I always run into strings of tourists driving vehicles. They hold up traffic by going under the speed limit.

With that said, car rental companies should have less cars to rent out.

We should have tourists use the tour-bus services. Or, have a shuttle service for these tourists traveling around Kaua‘i who share the roads with Kaua‘i workers.

Howard Tolbe, ‘Ele‘ele
Source: The Garden Island