Participants in the Vision meetings discussed how Honolulu could build a future in which everyone can experience livability, opportunity and sustainability. In the transportation arena, participants expressed concern over urban sprawl, traffic congestion, and people's over-dependence on the automobile. With this in mind, the City is planning to increase the residential population in the urban corridor by forty to sixty thousand. Before this can occur, however, the City would need to ensure that the water and sewer system is capable of handling the increased population, that the schools and parks are suitable, and that the transportation system can properly service the area. The goal is to stop sprawl in the Windward, North Shore and Central areas of Oahu.
Spokes represent express routes connecting hubs, local service, and community circulators.
The conversion will be done in a staged implementation with community input. It will take about two to three years to phase in. The Mobility Concept Plan has three goals. The second goal of the Mobility Concept Plan is to strengthen connections throughout the island by maximizing the efficiency of the public transportation system and developing a hierarchy of transit transfer centers. The third goal is to make the transportation choices that the public actually needs.