Hawaii Problems

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One major problem in Hawaii is its traffic. Traffic can cause many problems from making travel hard to various health problems. Traffic causes many problems such as pollution, waste of resources such as gas, making people late to various things, and can even causes stress which is a health related problem. On average, people waste a month of their life on the road in traffic.
Traffic is caused by multiple things such as accidents on the road, the days and times that students go back to school, mostly UH, and the time that most people, students and workers, start work. If we don’t do something about the traffic now, these problems and many more will continue to accumulate and sooner or later, traffic will become a very concerning problem to

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