The Plastic Bag Ban

Hawaii Say bye bye to free bags on Oahu

The City Council on Oahu approved a nonsense law that went into effect on 07-01-2018 banning plastic bags. Stores will be fined if they give out bags to customers on Oahu without charging 15 cents for each bag. The bags sold will need to be reusable plastic bags that are compostable or paper bags that are recyclable. The store keeps the 15 cents as revenue and the bags sold are taxed adding additional cost for the consumer.

Unprepared shoppers are carrying purchased items out of the store without a bag to show defiance for the bonehead law. Shoplifters are attempting to carry unpurchased items out of the store too. Looks like the stores will need to use that 15 cents to add more security. It does appear that stores have beefed up their security. The consumer is being stalked by store security or staff to look at you as a potential shoplifter making your shopping experience uncomfortable.

The plastic bag ban will not save our planet. The planet will survive. The only thing that can destroy our planet is a Death Star. We need a law banning any construction of a Death Star.

Star Wars - Death Star aka Planet Destroyer 

Bike lanes gone wild

Bike lanes are accidents waiting to happen when the moment is just right. Who is at risk? The biker, car, and pedestrians.

Bike lanes have rules. Bikes ONLY!!! Hahaha, it's the wild wild west in the bike lane. If it has wheels it will be in the bike lane. No speed limit is set in in the bike lanes so watch out. Bikes and anything on wheels are blazing by in the bike lane.

Street parking for cars next to a bike lane requires the occupants of the parked car to cross the bike lane with extreme caution to get to the sidewalk safely without getting run over by anything on wheels. You also need to cross that bike lane again to get to your car. The bike lane is bidirectional so you better look both ways or you will end up in the emergency room. They just come out of nowhere so you need to be very alert by a bike lane. Drive ways in the bike lane requires everyone to watch out for each other.

Night time is when everyone is at a higher risk. The visibility in the bike lane is poor. Most bikers do not use safety lights like rear red blinking lights and handlebar lights. The anything on wheels does not help the situation by using the bike lane at night. Everyone is at risk of getting hit.

King Street - Honolulu (Oahu)