Rail

...Small Business Caucus of the Hawaii State Legislature today announced its priority list of bills....

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....

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....

...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....

Okino was the principal advocate for rail when the City Council originally authorized the project. Djou lead the opposition to rail on the council....

...Monday, Feb. 2, at the Aliamanu Middle School Cafeteria, 3271 Salt Lake Blvd., from 5:30-7:30 p.m....

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....

Monday, Jan 26, 2015, hearing starts at 2:30pm, State Capitol Auditorium

Long term risks to taxpayers: How Projects Get out of Control Using the Wrong Procurement Methods....

...keeping the Oahu half-percent rail surcharge in place will only encourage lawmakers to increase the surcharge whenever there is a rail transit shortfall....

Professor and Transportation expert, Panos Prevedouros joins host Keli'i Akina to discuss Oahu's fixed-rail project....

The goals of public and private unions are diverging....

...with projects in Venezuela, Libya, Georgia....

West Loch, Waipahu Transit Center and Leeward Community College stations....

...how many workers commute in and out of the area on a typical workday? ....

The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) announced several steps to explore new revenue sources in an effort to worsen your financial challenges....

...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....

Delays to asset sales have prompted credit ratings agencies to downgrade the company to junk....

Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Neal Blaisdell Center Exhibition Hall....

“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....”

The meeting is set for 6:30-8:30 p.m., Nov. 13, in the Waipahu Intermediate School Cafeteria....

The renewable mandates make Hawaii more unaffordable and the mothballed interisland cable is yet another boondoggle....

10% shortfall--just happens to equal the State's override for collecting the tax....

...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....

"Senator Ige's latest extreme proposal clearly demonstrates that the cost of living in Hawaii is at the bottom of his list of priorities...."

...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....

...Hoopili’s traffic impact will be immense with or without rail....

...HART is throwing out three bids for the first nine stations in the city’s $5.16 billion rail transit project....

Cliff Garcia operates Tropical Lamps & Shades on land his family has owned in the Kakaako district near downtown Honolulu for the past 70 years....

...Waihe‘e also contracted Dennis Dwyer for a total of $1.3 million dollars to be Kana‘iolowalu’s federal lobbyist....

September 14, 2011: "The city initially claimed that rail would create 17,000 new jobs during the construction phase..."

...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....

...6 p.m., August 27, in the Washington Middle School Cafeteria....

These nine stations are the relatively easy ones to build... A couple of them are in empty fields....

...Rail boss Grabauskas blames "red hot" construction market for rail cost overruns, but....

... News Release from PRP Frontgroup "Forward Progress" ....

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....

"We now have collected nearly $1.3 billion in surcharge revenue for rail construction...."

...we identified significant public and private infrastructure projects that are “on the books” over the next 20 years....

...a Request for Qualifications seeking a master developer for the future mixed-income redevelopment of Mayor Wright Homes....

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....

...acquiring properties in Honolulu to build Oahu's rail transit system could involve 'judicious' use of eminent domain....

...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....

...we have built 100 columns, about 130 foundations and have just put up the first segments of our guideway....

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....

...1,500 residential units in five towers will be the city’s first catalytic Transit Oriented Development project along the rail route....

"CitiBike has put out 6,000 bikes at 325 locations at a cost of $6,833 per bike."