The Teleworker interviewed Senator Mike Gabbard, District 19, on his views on telework in the following article, “They paved paradise – a commuter’s view“:
Hawaii may conjure images of tranquil relaxation for tourists, but not for commuters. In 2008, Honolulu had the dubious distinction of being named the worst city in the nation for the rush-hour travel time by the National Traffic Scorecard, compiled by INRIX, a Seattle-based provider of real-time, predictive traffic information. Along one section of the H-1 Freeway near the Honolulu International Airport, motorists are stuck in traffic for nearly 40 hours each week.
Mike Gabbard, a Democratic state senator who has been pushing legislation for the past several years to encourage more telework among public and private sector employers, sums up his own experience commuting from his home in Kapolei in West Oahu to the Hawaii State Capitol in Honolulu as “just awful.”
State Senator Mike Gabbard (West Oahu), chair of the Senate Committee on Energy and the Environment, today announced that his committee, in conjunction with the Senate Committee on Commerce and Consumer Protection chaired by Senator Roz Baker (West Maui), will convene an informational briefing on January 14, 2009 at 2:00pm in Conference Room 229 at the State Capitol.
