This provocative comment came in via email, and I thought it worth sharing. It suggests we should not assume that key proponents of the city’s rail transit project are actually wholeheartedly behind the proposed rail system, but driven by other external pressures/demands. What do you think? As for Carrie Okinaga, I suspect that she, like [...]
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Honolulu’s rail transit authority says it will not publicly disclose an “independent, third-party” review of $361 million of bond guarantees provided by Ansaldo Honolulu JV, which was awarded the project’s core systems contract at the end of last month. The review was requested by several members of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation board prior [...]
Tags: Bert T. Kobayashi Jr.·Honolulu rail project·Kobayashi Sugita & Goda
Full circle. That’s where the discussion of rail has come since Monday’s entry (“What happened to the light rail alternative (redux)?“), which in turn linked back to a March 2010 entry with the same focus. The point of both posts was to question why light rail wasn’t considered for use in Honolulu, although it has [...]
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Once again, I noticed the mainstream reporting on the federal lawsuit filed last week challenging the environmental impact statement for the Honolulu rail project didn’t include links to the complaint itself. Hawaii News Now had the only story I saw that linked to a copy of the 56-page complaint. It linked to the copy posted [...]
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Two recent cases are the first to be filed relating to Honolulu’s rail project. The first, filed by the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation, is relatively straightforward. It argues that state law regarding burials and historic resources requires an inventory to be done where burials can be expected to be found. And the law also requires [...]
Tags: Honolulu rail project·John C. McLaren·Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation
New Jersey’s Republican governor is reportedly considering pulling the plug on a long-planned $8.7 billion transit tunnel, despite 20 years of planning and $6 billion in federal and state funding commitments, according to a New York Times story yesterday. The tunnel, which was scheduled to be completed in 2017, was designed to double the capacity [...]
It appears Honolulu city officials are still trying to keep transit contracts under wraps, and the issue poses an immediate test of incoming mayor Peter Carlisle campaign commitment to transparency in his administration. Honolulu attorney David Kimo Frankel offered up this account of his attempts to examine the first large construction contract. In August 2010, [...]
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A devastatingly critical report detailing chronic problems in the State Historic Preservation Division warns that continued mismanagement and financial constraints facing the office could cause economically significant delays in major projects that must meet federal standards for protection of historic and cultural resources. Department of Defense construction projects, as well as other large federally funded [...]
Tags: Honolulu rail project·State Historic Preservation Division
