It might be cheaper and easier to make them an actual safe tourist attraction lol

Sucks that bad people had to ruin it for everyone I’ve always wanted to hike up there 😢

watch, this will take much longer than expected and cost much more. Ask the Kamaʻāina. Restoration, not destruction. These selfish fools in town don't understand what the people want. $2.6 mil? yeah right. Very sad day.

2.6 mil ??!!! If chronics can recycle the metal. They do'em for free.

Wake Up America! We have WWIII knocking at our Doorstep and All the Radical Left Democrat Party is Concerned about is Trying Donald J. Trump, our former and soon to be next President for what equates to a Misdemeanor Traffic Ticket? Make it Make Sense??? F.J.B. and the Whole Democrat Party! +&-6

someone will probably try climb up there after they gone and get hurt

No more tourist money.

I don’t believe there is an Hawaiian Heritage inclusion for this Haiku Stairs. My understanding from decades ago, is that this stairs was designed and built by either the military or the city government branch. This was used by their personnel to maintain such hard installations as microwave radio sites, for communicating between the Islands. Such installations required periodic maintenance and emergency repairs to keep the radio link operating. I believe since the City has created a project and cost, selected a contractor; that the removal should start immediately. No delays! As delays always becomes more costly. Even organizations that want to keep this stairs as is, will keep fighting to keep it. Besides, I don’t think many of these organizations are by locals. If stairs are kept, these organizations should financially be able to maintain, manage, regulate -the-use, and fund any 911 call related emergency rescue operations by the Honolulu Fire Department. Again, if these organization, or organizations wants to keep it, legitimate business planning, legal and financial support needs to be created and recorded with the City of Honolulu. No more, tax-payer funding to support keeping the stairs.

And the 2.6 MILLION $$ goes to...the Mayor's cousin! His cousin will then repay the favor with an all expenses vacation to MONACO! Or, pay the Mayors sons TUITION at HARVARD. Or provide some "Adult ENTERTAINMENT"! Another option - get the Mayors kid enrolled at YALE. See how kickbacks work? Its not hard to cover these trails.

great going tourists. you always ruin the fun.

Finally the city spends tax money for a good cause.

Maybe use the stairs for the last leg of the rail from Kakaako to Ala Moana.