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Friday, February 13, 2015 |
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Rail: Engineer Exposes The Hows and Whys of Cost Overruns
By Grassroot Institute @ 1:07 PM :: 5816 Views :: Rail
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...managers had set up a special module in the cost reporting software that allowed them to change prices....
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Wednesday, February 11, 2015 |
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Small Business Caucus Backs HB266 Regulatory Review Board
By News Release @ 9:18 PM :: 6667 Views :: Rail, Small Business, Taxes
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...Small Business Caucus of the Hawaii State Legislature today announced its priority list of bills....
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Monday, February 9, 2015 |
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Rail to Make a Mess of Bus Service in Pearl City 'Until Further Notice'
By News Release @ 4:42 PM :: 4899 Views :: Rail
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Beginning tomorrow, Tuesday, February 10, 2015, and until further notice, Routes A, 40, 42, 53, and 62 buses traveling westbound on Kamehameha Highway from Kaahumanu Road to Waiawa Road will be detoured between 2 and 7 p.m. Monday through Friday....
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Wednesday, February 4, 2015 |
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People's Pulse Contradicts Ward Poll: "Economy, Housing Remain at Forefront"
By News Release @ 3:06 AM :: 7677 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Rail
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Housing / homelessness is now the new hot button concern, increasing from 6% to 17% over the past year, overtaking Education as well as infrastructure, covering roads and mass transit....
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Tuesday, February 3, 2015 |
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Djou: How to Fix the Rail Mess
By Rep Charles Djou @ 8:56 PM :: 5634 Views :: Rail
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...we now need a more responsible and accountable government that is going to actually complete this project the right way without corruption, massive additional cost over-runs and more taxes....
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Friday, January 30, 2015 |
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Okino, Djou: End the State Skim on Rail Funds
By News Release @ 6:27 PM :: 7002 Views :: Rail
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Okino was the principal advocate for rail when the City Council originally authorized the project. Djou lead the opposition to rail on the council....
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Wednesday, January 28, 2015 |
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
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City to hold second Airport Area TOD community meeting
By News Release @ 6:46 PM :: 7872 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Rail
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...Monday, Feb. 2, at the Aliamanu Middle School Cafeteria, 3271 Salt Lake Blvd., from 5:30-7:30 p.m....
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Tuesday, January 27, 2015 |
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Rail Fail: Hawaii Ranks 49th--Lost 4.5% of Construction Jobs in Last 12 mos
By Andrew Walden @ 3:06 PM :: 7941 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Labor, Rail
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Making excuses for price-gouging rail contractors, HART Director Daniel Grabauskas points to the “red-hot construction market” as the cause for HART cost overruns....
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Saturday, January 24, 2015 |
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Protest Rail Tax Hike Monday Jan 26
By News Release @ 4:38 PM :: 6843 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Taxes
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Monday, Jan 26, 2015, hearing starts at 2:30pm, State Capitol Auditorium
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Tuesday, January 20, 2015 |
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Accountability for Big Infrastructure Projects?
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 8:47 PM :: 4893 Views :: Rail
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Long term risks to taxpayers: How Projects Get out of Control Using the Wrong Procurement Methods....
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015 |
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Going forward and looking back at the Honolulu City Council
By Rachelle Chang @ 11:11 PM :: 7861 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Taxes
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...keeping the Oahu half-percent rail surcharge in place will only encourage lawmakers to increase the surcharge whenever there is a rail transit shortfall....
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Saturday, January 10, 2015 |
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Video: Will Rail Be De-Railed? - Panos Prevedouros
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:28 AM :: 5310 Views :: Rail
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Professor and Transportation expert, Panos Prevedouros joins host Keli'i Akina to discuss Oahu's fixed-rail project....
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Monday, January 5, 2015 |
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Hawaii Election 2014: Public Sector Unions Defeat Private Sector Unions
By Selected News Articles @ 12:09 PM :: 7552 Views :: Labor, Rail, Republican Party
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The goals of public and private unions are diverging....
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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 :: 5492 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 :: 5877 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 :: 5222 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 :: 6230 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 :: 5355 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 :: 6992 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 :: 7080 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 :: 6170 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 :: 5763 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 :: 6540 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 :: 8044 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 :: 6161 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 :: 5413 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 :: 8051 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 :: 7346 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 :: 8188 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 :: 5064 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 :: 6759 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 :: 5846 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 :: 11768 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 :: 7404 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 :: 9527 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 :: 6377 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 :: 4819 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 :: 7072 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 :: 7054 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 :: 7121 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 :: 4829 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 :: 7341 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 :: 6695 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 :: 7081 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 :: 5672 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 :: 10495 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 :: 4316 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 :: 4500 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 :: 9234 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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