"The year is 2000 and you have to get from the airport to downtown Honolulu in five minutes…You step into a small automatically controlled capsule which takes you on your way at a rate of 15 miles per hour on tracks high above the streets…By 2000, downtown Honolulu - like cities on the Mainland - will be off limits to private automobiles..."
- reporter William Helton, Honolulu Advertiser, July 27, 1970.