Ka Wai Ola - Office of Hawaiian Affairs, Volume 25, Number 2, 1 February 2008 — Rename the Superferry [ARTICLE]

Rename the Superferry

What's in a name? When it

comes to the so-called Superferry, a lot. It's a ferry all right, but who gets to decide if it's "super" or not? I've heard it called a few other things, some of whieh are not suitable for readers under the age of 100. The self-described "Superferry" arrived in Hawai'i like Godzilla or King Kong beating his chest, did pretty mueh what it wanted to at first, and only stopped to ask what the people and the law thought about it later. The most recent instance of this arrogance is the Superferry's decision to make a second daily trip to Maui without, as Mayor Tavares said, consulting with the community first. The Superferry has since postponed the addition of the second trip. Perhaps if the Superferry changed its name to something less "in your face," like the "Alohaferry," for instance, and then tried to live up to the name, a sea change is possible.

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