It is essential that transit agencies
send forward-thinking individuals to
experience the host cities they are
staged in, to see what actually works on
the street ...
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with other municipalities and transit agencies
to sharpen our best practices toolkits
with the latest and greatest techniques.
We regularly send our city and transit
agency employees on conference
trips and siting tours. While it might
be cost-prohibitive to travel across the
Pacifi c for every learning experience,
it is absolutely worth the price of travel
for our team members to bring back new
ideas to Hawai‘i or share lessons learned
with other places.
This learning exchange through
travel is surely a two-way street. Why
should cities and agencies reinvent the
proverbial wheel when collaboration can
save everyone time and money, recognizing
the value of best practices and
lessons learned before proceeding down
a project path?
Th e city and county of Honolulu has
recently collaborated with the Commonwealth
Offi ce of Transit Authority
of Saipan in the Northern Mariana
Islands. While they are geographically
closer to Asia than the United States, they
are managed via the same Federal Transit
Administration Region as Hawai‘i.
Saipan is currently in the planning stages
to bring much-needed fi xed-route transit
to their island. Looking at the similarities
between our places, it is natural to
share Honolulu’s more than 100 years of
public transit experience with Saipan. We
plan to welcome their teams to Honolulu
and travel to Saipan to conduct peer
reviews. Again, this natural networking
and sharing through travel presents so
much value to both places.
We oft en ask our transit team members
in planning, operations and maintenance
to think outside of the box. Travel
is one way to break out of their day-today
boxes and expose them to new people,
new ideas and new possibilities. Get
out there, meet the people, eat their food,
ride their transit, live their city, and tell
them about ours — then cross the ocean
and bring the best things they see back
to our island home.
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