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Thursday, January 1, 2015 |
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Chinese Consortium Makes Binding Offer to Buy Parent Company of Honolulu Rail Contractor
By Selected News Articles @ 5:41 PM :: 4882 Views :: Rail
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...with projects in Venezuela, Libya, Georgia....
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Wednesday, December 31, 2014 |
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Can You Say 'Train Wreck'?
By Video @ 9:40 PM :: 5168 Views :: Rail
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Would You Buy A Car From A Company That's About To Derail?
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Monday, December 22, 2014 |
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HART advertises first package of rail station contracts
By News Release @ 8:26 PM :: 4589 Views :: Rail
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West Loch, Waipahu Transit Center and Leeward Community College stations....
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Monday, December 22, 2014 |
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Commuter-Adjusted Daytime Population on Oahu
By News Release @ 7:16 PM :: 5411 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Rail
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...how many workers commute in and out of the area on a typical workday? ....
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Friday, December 19, 2014 |
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HART: ‘Begin the discussion now of extending the existing half-percent GET surcharge’
By News Release @ 4:17 PM :: 4614 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) announced several steps to explore new revenue sources in an effort to worsen your financial challenges....
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Friday, December 12, 2014 |
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Smart Growth v. Suburbanization Score is 0-1
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 2:37 AM :: 6285 Views :: Development, Rail
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...urban trends are driven more by the masses and less by the political, academic and "environmental" elites that love to dictate how the hoi polloi should live....
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Sunday, November 30, 2014 |
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Nobody Commits to Buy Ansaldo: Deadline Extended Again for Parent Company of Honolulu Rail Contractor
By Selected News Articles @ 3:49 PM :: 6199 Views :: Rail
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Delays to asset sales have prompted credit ratings agencies to downgrade the company to junk....
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Friday, November 14, 2014 |
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City to host free TOD symposium Saturday, November 22
By News Release @ 10:10 PM :: 5364 Views :: Development, Rail
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Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Neal Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall....
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Friday, November 14, 2014 |
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As the Nation Turns, Hawaii is Still Driven
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 6:00 PM :: 5029 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Rail
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“Hawaii’s driving never really went down – it just flattened out and then started going up again as opposed to the mainland, which made a U-turn....”
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Friday, November 7, 2014 |
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Waipahu Rail Development -- Zoning Meeting
By News Release @ 10:54 PM :: 5683 Views :: Development, Rail
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The meeting is set for 6:30-8:30 p.m., Nov. 13, in the Waipahu Intermediate School Cafeteria....
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Friday, October 31, 2014 |
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Panos: Next Governor Should Focus on Transportation, Energy
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 7:48 PM :: 7144 Views :: Energy, Politicians, Rail
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The renewable mandates make Hawaii more unaffordable and the mothballed interisland cable is yet another boondoggle....
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Saturday, October 25, 2014 |
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$40.8M Missing: Rail GE Tax Revenues Short Again
By News Release @ 2:50 AM :: 5439 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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10% shortfall--just happens to equal the State's override for collecting the tax....
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Sunday, October 19, 2014 |
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Former Execs of Honolulu Rail Supplier Parent Company Get Two Year Prison Term
By Selected News Articles @ 6:35 PM :: 4831 Views :: Rail
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...paying tens of millions of euros to Indian officials including a former Air Force head through intermediaries and falsifying invoices to win a high-profile contract....
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Wednesday, October 15, 2014 |
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Ige Wants To Charge $500 For Parking In Downtown Honolulu!?
By News Release @ 2:40 PM :: 7182 Views :: Politicians, Rail, Cost of Living
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"Senator Ige's latest extreme proposal clearly demonstrates that the cost of living in Hawaii is at the bottom of his list of priorities...."
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Tuesday, September 30, 2014 |
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Six Council Members Bought Off by Lobbyists, Key Rail Votes may be Nullified
By Selected News Articles @ 5:18 PM :: 6598 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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...Key votes on the city rail transit project and other issues might be invalidated because Honolulu City Council members failed to disclose conflicts of interest after being wined and dined by lobbyists....
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Friday, September 19, 2014 |
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Panos: Hoopili Traffic Assessments Untruthful
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 1:47 AM :: 7122 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Rail
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...Hoopili’s traffic impact will be immense with or without rail....
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Tuesday, September 9, 2014 |
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Rail Opening Delayed One Year as Budget Busting Bids Tossed Out
By Selected News Articles @ 11:13 PM :: 4412 Views :: Rail
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...HART is throwing out three bids for the first nine stations in the city’s $5.16 billion rail transit project....
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014 |
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GE Tax: Will Cost Overruns Lead to New Rail Showdown?
By Selected News Articles @ 2:29 PM :: 5901 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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By their own admission, HART executives underestimated the effect of litigation on construction costs and schedules. Will they now underestimate their ability to push through an unpopular tax hike?
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Friday, August 29, 2014 |
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RAILROADED: Rail construction Could put Small businesses out of business
By Malia Zimmerman @ 5:51 AM :: 5133 Views :: Rail
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Cliff Garcia operates Tropical Lamps & Shades on land his family has owned in the Kakaako district near downtown Honolulu for the past 70 years....
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Thursday, August 28, 2014 |
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Sai: Wong, Dwyer, Namuo Rake in Millions from Kanaiolowalu
By Andrew Walden @ 11:11 PM :: 10509 Views :: Akaka Bill, Ethics, OHA, Rail
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...Waihe‘e also contracted Dennis Dwyer for a total of $1.3 million dollars to be Kana‘iolowalu’s federal lobbyist....
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Saturday, August 23, 2014 |
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HART: Only 743 Local Jobs Created by Rail Work
By News Release @ 11:33 PM :: 6508 Views :: Labor, Rail
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September 14, 2011: "The city initially claimed that rail would create 17,000 new jobs during the construction phase..."
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 |
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Yakuza? Triads? Technicalities Shred $50M Racketeering Suit Against Pro-Rail Hawaiian Stabilization Fund
By Selected News Articles @ 4:45 PM :: 8294 Views :: DHHL, Ethics, Labor, Rail
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...Judge Chen found that all of the union members' allegations regarding the Hawaiian Stabilization Fund involve state-law causes of action over which the federal court has no jurisdiction....
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Wednesday, August 20, 2014 |
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City to Discuss Ala Moana TOD Plan
By News Release @ 2:10 PM :: 5624 Views :: Development, Rail
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...6 p.m., August 27, in the Washington Middle School Cafeteria....
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Tuesday, August 19, 2014 |
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The Incompetence of HART: Cheapest Bid for 9 Stations Comes 75% Over Budget
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 10:28 PM :: 4249 Views :: Rail
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These nine stations are the relatively easy ones to build... A couple of them are in empty fields....
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Monday, August 18, 2014 |
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Not Red Hot: Hawaii Construction Employment Drops 1.4%
By News Release @ 9:01 PM :: 6160 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Rail
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...Rail boss Grabauskas blames "red hot" construction market for rail cost overruns, but....
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Monday, August 11, 2014 |
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2 PRP Candidates Win, 3 More Head to General
By News Release @ 10:57 PM :: 6141 Views :: Labor, Politicians, Rail
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... News Release from PRP Frontgroup "Forward Progress" ....
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Friday, August 1, 2014 |
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State Administrator Admits Federal Highway Dollars in Jeopardy
By News Release @ 8:13 PM :: 6288 Views :: Politicians, Rail, Republican Party
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Unless the State elects a Republican to represent its needs and projects, Hawaii’s current all-Democrat delegation will have no seat in the majority caucus where decisions are made....
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Friday, July 25, 2014 |
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HART Receives $49.5 M GET Revenue, Buys Embossed Column
By News Release @ 10:38 PM :: 4250 Views :: Rail
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"We now have collected nearly $1.3 billion in surcharge revenue for rail construction...."
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Thursday, July 24, 2014 |
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$15.45B Report: 560 Big Construction Projects for Hawaii
By News Release @ 10:04 PM :: 6307 Views :: Hawaii State Government, Labor, Rail
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...we identified significant public and private infrastructure projects that are “on the books” over the next 20 years....
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014 |
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TOD Plan to Bulldoze Mayor Wright Homes
By News Release @ 12:59 PM :: 5761 Views :: Development, Rail
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...a Request for Qualifications seeking a master developer for the future mixed-income redevelopment of Mayor Wright Homes....
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Tuesday, July 15, 2014 |
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City to hold Airport TOD Plan community workshop
By News Release @ 12:20 PM :: 6026 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Rail
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The workshop is set for Tuesday, July 22, at the Aliamanu Elementary School Cafeteria, 3265 Salt Lake Boulevard, from 5:30-7:30 p.m....
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Friday, June 20, 2014 |
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Honolulu Rail And The Use Of Eminent Domain
By Robert Thomas @ 8:35 PM :: 5060 Views :: Rail
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...acquiring properties in Honolulu to build Oahu's rail transit system could involve 'judicious' use of eminent domain....
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Saturday, June 14, 2014 |
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You're corrupt so you have no right to say I'm corrupt!
By News Release @ 6:25 PM :: 9278 Views :: Democratic Party, Ethics, Labor, Politicians, Rail
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...Cayetano had claimed PRP's ad campaign tarnished his reputation by unfairly portraying him as corrupt for accepting about $500,000 in illegal campaign contributions during the Democrat's narrow re-election victory over Linda Lingle....
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Friday, June 13, 2014 |
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HART completes 100th column along rail route
By News Release @ 5:35 PM :: 3829 Views :: Rail
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...we have built 100 columns, about 130 foundations and have just put up the first segments of our guideway....
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Monday, June 2, 2014 |
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The Worst of Both: The Rise of High-Cost, Low-Capacity Rail Transit
By Selected News Articles @ 12:27 PM :: 3984 Views :: Rail
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Honolulu is building a 20-mile elevated rail line that costs well over twice as much as the average light rail. Yet those lines will be limited to little (or no) more than light-rail capacities....
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Thursday, May 29, 2014 |
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Aiea: More Condos, Fewer Traffic Lanes, and Toxic Waste
By News Release @ 3:24 AM :: 8007 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Development, Rail
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...1,500 residential units in five towers will be the city’s first catalytic Transit Oriented Development project along the rail route....
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014 |
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CitiBike? No, SillyBike
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 3:15 PM :: 6021 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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"CitiBike has put out 6,000 bikes at 325 locations at a cost of $6,833 per bike."
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Tuesday, May 27, 2014 |
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Railroading Paradise: Pro-Rail Sierra Club Releasing Rail Documentary
By News Release @ 5:47 AM :: 5496 Views :: Rail
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Flashback 2012: "Members, Donors Threaten to Resign as Sierra Club Oahu Group Votes to Back Rail"
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Tuesday, May 20, 2014 |
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Dangerous by Design: Hawaii Worst for Elderly Pedestrian Fatalities
By News Release @ 9:15 PM :: 6869 Views :: Development, Hawaii Statistics, Rail
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...while older residents age 65+ comprise 13.7 percent of our population, they accounted for nearly 42 percent of pedestrian fatalities across Hawaii....
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Wednesday, May 7, 2014 |
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Finding Probable Violations, Ethics Commission Seeks Jurisdiction Over HART
By News Release @ 6:02 AM :: 5599 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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Over the last several years, the Ethics Commission has faced an increase in complaints of unethical conduct by these individuals....
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Sunday, May 4, 2014 |
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HART 3 Month Take--Another $61.7M from Taxpayers
By News Release @ 1:42 AM :: 4981 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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The half-percent GET surcharge for Oahu, which by law can only be used for Honolulu's rail system, began in January 2007 and is set to expire at the end of 2022....
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Friday, May 2, 2014 |
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Pinata: HART Celebrates Cinco de Mayo With Rail Contractors' Festival
By News Release @ 5:11 PM :: 3819 Views :: Rail
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...designed to bring large prime contractors together with local companies, and to provide the latest information about upcoming construction contracts....
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Tuesday, April 15, 2014 |
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"Modern" Light Rail: Worth the Investment?
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 10:02 PM :: 4213 Views :: Rail
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The answer comes quickly in the introduction of this well-researched article in The Atlantic Cities....
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Monday, April 7, 2014 |
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Why Infrastructure Projects Cost Way More Than They Should
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 11:21 PM :: 7893 Views :: National News, Development, Labor, Rail
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The Atlantic Cities magazine published a condensed analysis of seven main reasons that explain why U.S infrastructure project cost more than elsewhere....
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Saturday, March 22, 2014 |
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Ansaldo Breda Forced to Buy Back Defective Trainsets
By Selected News Articles @ 4:27 PM :: 5191 Views :: Rail
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Under an agreement announced on March 17, AnsaldoBreda will take back all 16 V250s ordered by NS and return €125m to the operator....
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Friday, March 21, 2014 |
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HART Lawyer Gives Last Word on Rail Case
By Robert Thomas @ 6:15 PM :: 4098 Views :: Rail
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Mr. Thornton notes that the decision is one "of national importance for transit and highway projects" because....
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Thursday, March 13, 2014 |
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U.S. District Court's Honolulu Rail Compliance Order – A Slam Dunk
By Robert Thomas @ 4:33 PM :: 5586 Views :: Judiciary, Rail
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...Judge A. Wallace Teshima’s truly final order in the case: the Order on Objection to Notice of Compliance, which coincidentally (or perhaps not) was issued on the same day (February 18, 2014) as the Ninth Circuit opinion....
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Tuesday, March 11, 2014 |
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Concrete Brutality: HART Rail Stations Revealed
By Video @ 11:36 PM :: 4609 Views :: Rail
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HART video shows design for rail stations from Aloha Stadium to Kapolei.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014 |
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Dead on Arrival: Obama’s FY 2015 Budget includes $250 million for rail
By News Release @ 3:08 AM :: 4038 Views :: Rail
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POLITICO: "Yes, we all know President Barack Obama’s budget is dead on arrival."
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