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Saturday, September 21, 2024 |
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Most-read article: ‘Why is Hawaii so expensive?’
By Grassroot Institute @ 12:35 AM :: 1099 Views :: Jones Act, Rail, Taxes, Cost of Living
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... The second most-read article is “Why we left Hawaii” ....
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Thursday, August 15, 2024 |
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HART Awards $1.66B Contract for Center City Rail
By News Release @ 10:31 PM :: 1313 Views :: Rail
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... $360M above projections before they turn a shovel ....
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Saturday, June 29, 2024 |
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Biki Bikeshare abandoned by owners, operation handed over to City
By News Release @ 5:40 PM :: 1518 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail, Tourism, Drugs
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... as of Monday, July 1, 2024, Bikeshare Hawaiʻi has turned over its oversight role of the Biki bikeshare system to DTS ....
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Friday, April 26, 2024 |
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Bonfire: HART Receives $125M from Feds
By News Release @ 2:38 AM :: 1448 Views :: Rail
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... if HART awards the City Center Guideway and Stations contract, expected later this year, an additional $250 million will be burned ....
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Monday, April 22, 2024 |
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City Points to Empty Rail System as Example of 'Sustainability'
By News Release @ 11:15 PM :: 1740 Views :: Honolulu County, Environment, Rail
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... and an interactive Skyline tour, showcasing that Earth Day is for everyone ....
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Saturday, January 27, 2024 |
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Transit: Its growth, decline, and pending demise
By Cliff Slater @ 7:47 PM :: 1631 Views :: Rail
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... Cliff Slater’s Tour de Force ....
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Sunday, January 14, 2024 |
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Honolulu’s Skyline rail ridership still paltry, cost now $72 each
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:24 PM :: 1867 Views :: Rail
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... Skyline’s average daily ridership since opening in July is 3,100 ....
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Saturday, December 30, 2023 |
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Keeping Honolulu Jammed: 2023 Complete Streets Progress Report
By News Release @ 5:57 PM :: 1647 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... In previous decades, City streets were planned and designed primarily for vehicular capacity, not any longer! ....
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023 |
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Felon Watch: Nan buying Grace Pacific from A&B
By Andrew Walden @ 3:41 AM :: 4948 Views :: Ethics, Development, Rail
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... convicted felon to gain even more control over Hawaii CIP projects ....
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Saturday, October 14, 2023 |
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Is it really a good idea to build a new Aloha Stadium?
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:20 PM :: 2838 Views :: Ethics, Development, Higher Education, Rail, Tourism
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... Considering the record of the old Aloha Stadium, there are many questions ....
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Sunday, September 17, 2023 |
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Has HART gone off the rails again?
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 12:00 PM :: 2093 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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... Natalie Iwasa, who was appointed by state Speaker of the House Scott Saiki, has been barred from participating in executive sessions ....
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Saturday, August 5, 2023 |
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Honolulu Rail: ‘I hope its future is short’
By Grassroot Institute @ 3:46 PM :: 3156 Views :: Rail
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... the highest per-passenger operating cost of any light-rail systems in the nation ....
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Tuesday, August 1, 2023 |
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Running the rail is costing even more than originally estimated
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:42 AM :: 3053 Views :: Rail
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... Ridership on the half-completed rail has been steadily falling, causing the per-passenger taxpayer subsidy to go even higher ....
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Saturday, July 22, 2023 |
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Talk of the town: Rail Operating Cost $54 per passenger
By Grassroot Institute @ 5:25 PM :: 2717 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Rail
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... the highest per-passenger cost among light-rail systems in the nation — by far ....
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Sunday, July 16, 2023 |
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Rail Ridership 21 Times Below Projections
By Selected News Articles @ 5:56 PM :: 3651 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Rail
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... 4,000 is a little short of the number that HART projected it would attract once the system is completed: 84,000 people a day ....
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Thursday, July 13, 2023 |
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Skyline's $54 per passenger operating cost highest in U.S.
By Grassroot Institute @ 6:13 PM :: 4228 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Rail
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... “Taxpayers are already paying an enormous amount to build the project, but now are paying even more to run it nearly empty” ....
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Tuesday, July 11, 2023 |
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Double Nothing is Nothing: City announces updated and corrected ridership numbers for Skyline
By News Release @ 6:06 PM :: 2215 Views :: Hawaii Statistics, Rail
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... $13B / 3,666 avg daily riders = $3.5M per rider We could have bought each rider a house near their job and a Cadillac or two to put in the garage -- and still saved billions ....
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Friday, July 7, 2023 |
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Only 1,245 passengers ride Rail on first day they had to pay
By News Release @ 5:10 AM :: 2531 Views :: Rail
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... DO THE MATH: $13B / 1,245 = $10.4M per passenger -- slightly more than a Bugatti Centodieci ....
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Sunday, June 25, 2023 |
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The politician and the Skyline buzzsaw
By Selected News Articles @ 4:25 AM :: 3437 Views :: Hawaii History, Rail
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... a list of political careers derailed by rail ....
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Monday, May 8, 2023 |
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TheBus Routes Changing to Link up with Rail
By News Release @ 2:33 PM :: 3314 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... a complete visual map of TheBus and Rail system ....
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Monday, May 1, 2023 |
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Rail: ‘If you build it, make sure you have all your money first’
By Grassroot Institute @ 11:00 AM :: 2300 Views :: Rail
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... a new consequence seems to have emerged: The city recently saw its bond rating downgraded ....
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Wednesday, April 12, 2023 |
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Fixing Hawaii’s Transportation System; A Dose of the Private Sector Would Help
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:09 AM :: 2734 Views :: Jones Act, Rail, Cost of Living
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... how Hawai'i can reduce the costs and the improve service quality of its various mass transportation systems ....
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Friday, April 7, 2023 |
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Moody's Downgrade: Rail Debt Gimmick Comes Back To Bite Honolulu Taxpayers
By News Release @ 4:00 PM :: 4502 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... The debt burden has recently been rising due to GOULT bonds issued for construction of the rapid transit system ....
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Saturday, March 25, 2023 |
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HART Seeks 9th Board Member
By News Release @ 4:51 PM :: 2241 Views :: Rail
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... the ninth voting member will be selected by the other eight voting members ....
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Saturday, January 28, 2023 |
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Maui Airport Mini-Rail to be Shutdown for Repairs--Replaced by Golf Carts
By News Release @ 2:40 PM :: 1939 Views :: Maui County, Rail
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... A contractor will provide golf carts to take anyone needing assistance between the CONRAC and the airport lobby. ...
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Friday, January 13, 2023 |
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GE Tax: Audit Shows Tourists Pay 14.1%--not 30%
By Andrew Walden @ 5:21 AM :: 12778 Views :: Rail, Taxes, Tourism, Cost of Living
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...The lie that tourists pay 30% of the GE Tax is front and center as Gov Green and legislators quickly walk back Green’s fake 2022 campaign promise to eliminate the GE Tax from food and medical care....
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Monday, December 26, 2022 |
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Convicted Meth Dealer Asks Federal Court Permission to Take Over Laborer’s Union
By Andrew Walden @ 10:48 PM :: 7411 Views :: Ethics, Labor, Rail, Drugs
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... “If my name sounds familiar it's because my dad was President of the Hawaii AFL-CIO and the Business Manager/ Financial Secretary for the Hawaii Carpenters Union Local 745 for over 20 years.”….
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Wednesday, December 21, 2022 |
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Senate Appropriations Bill: Pork for Rail, Red Hill, Housing
By News Release @ 3:20 PM :: 2365 Views :: Congressional Delegation, Military, Rail
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... “We had no idea this was in the works,” said Lori Kahikina, HART’s CEO and executive director ....
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Wednesday, November 30, 2022 |
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Quick Rail Boondoggle Update
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 2:37 AM :: 2281 Views :: Rail
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... Honolulu rail is not alone ....
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Sunday, August 14, 2022 |
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Honolulu announces free week of fares for TheBus
By News Release @ 4:00 AM :: 2185 Views :: Honolulu County, Education K-12, Rail
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... starting August 22 to August 26, 2022. The free fare week is timed with the back-to-school jam ....
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Sunday, August 14, 2022 |
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Plague, Frogs, Fire and Cracks: Eleven Years of HART Excuses
By Andrew Walden @ 12:02 AM :: 3556 Views :: Hawaii History, Rail
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... HART excuses are nearly Biblical: Plague, Frogs, Fires, and Cracks -- but the real reason slipped out as COVID shut down Hawaii's tourism industry: “After Wasting Billions to Build Rail, is it worth $160 million a year to operate?” ....
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Friday, July 22, 2022 |
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Ala Moana Satellite City Hall temporarily halts HOLO card service Because they Have too Many Customers
By News Release @ 5:11 AM :: 2390 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... Walk-in customers make up the majority of the 5,790 HOLO card transactions processed in the past fiscal year at the Ala Moana Satellite City Hall ....
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Thursday, June 30, 2022 |
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Honolulu Rail: $9.9 Billion to Go Nowhere
By Selected News Articles @ 2:00 AM :: 2874 Views :: Rail, COVID-19
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... the state of Hawaii has released a report explaining why the rail project will fail no matter where it goes or how much it costs ....
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Tuesday, June 28, 2022 |
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Time to get real about rail
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 6:33 PM :: 2418 Views :: Rail
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... It was sold to the public on the promise that it would only cost about $4 billion, that it would be completed by 2019 and that the general excise tax surcharge associated with it would end by 2022 ....
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Saturday, June 25, 2022 |
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Rail: Feds Urged to be Skeptical of HART 'Recovery Plan'
By Grassroot Institute @ 4:43 AM :: 2186 Views :: Rail
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...HART’s new plan appears to contain “overly optimistic assumptions about revenues, ridership and costs, and this could saddle local taxpayers with unstated liabilities in the future.”....
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Tuesday, June 21, 2022 |
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Why Panos Prevedouros Left Hawaii
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 2:47 AM :: 3816 Views :: Higher Education, Rail, Cost of Living
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... The former chairman of the University of Hawaii’s civil engineering department says aloha ....
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Monday, June 20, 2022 |
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$119M: Another Extension for Rail Management Contract
By News Release @ 4:47 PM :: 1819 Views :: Rail
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... The US$119 million contract is an extension of existing construction and engineering services Stantec is providing to HART and will run through the end of 2026, with the possibility of a 5-year extension to expected project completion in 2031 ....
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Sunday, June 12, 2022 |
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Bill 45: Rail TOD Giveaway to High Tech Tax Credit Schemers
By Selected News Articles @ 3:30 AM :: 3026 Views :: Honolulu County, Development, Rail, Tax Credits
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... The vague language in the proposal lacks any metrics for measuring success, similar to another business-focused tax credit whose value to the state is dubious ...
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Saturday, June 4, 2022 |
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Iwasa Rips Rail Recovery Plan: “Errors that no one seems to care about”
By Natalie Iwasa @ 5:54 PM :: 2658 Views :: Rail, Taxes
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... HART's recovery plan was shipped off to the FTA today with revenue projections that I think are too high ....
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Sunday, May 29, 2022 |
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Transit History
By Tom Yamachika @ 6:00 AM :: 2146 Views :: Hawaii History, Rail
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... Fat chance of the Feds giving us that much now ....
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Friday, May 20, 2022 |
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Questions persist about viability of Honolulu rail
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 7:05 PM :: 2147 Views :: Rail
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... the one thing we can rely on concerning the Honolulu rail project is the long list of unanswered questions ....
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Friday, May 13, 2022 |
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Honolulu Rail: $9.9 Billion to Go Nowhere
By Selected News Articles @ 5:45 PM :: 3187 Views :: Rail
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... HART now says it will cost $9.9 billion to not finish its rail project by 2031 ....
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Thursday, May 12, 2022 |
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'Good Questions' still bedevil Honolulu rail
By Keli'i Akina PhD @ 5:08 PM :: 1961 Views :: Rail
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... Iwasa has valuable insights into the operations of the rail project because she also is a non-voting member of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation ....
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Sunday, May 1, 2022 |
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Archegos -Theranos - Honolulu Rail: The Price of Lying
By Panos Prevedouros PhD @ 3:14 PM :: 2713 Views :: Ethics, Rail
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... What do these three multi billion dollar failures have in common? ....
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Wednesday, March 23, 2022 |
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HART: Recovery Plan Does Not Exist (yet)
By Andrew Walden @ 10:21 PM :: 2213 Views :: Rail
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..."We submitted a Recovery Plan to the FTA, proposing to amend the Full Funding Grant Agreement" (not quite) ....
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Tuesday, March 15, 2022 |
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State of the City: Blangiardi Announces Latest Scheme to Get Rail Money Withheld by Feds
By Video @ 7:23 PM :: 4394 Views :: Honolulu County, Homelessness, Rail, COVID-19
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"...We submitted a Recovery Plan to the FTA, proposing to amend the Full Funding Grant Agreement to the following scope: 18.75 miles/19 stations through Downtown, to the Civic Center Station, which is 1.25 miles and 2 stations short of Ala Moana Center...."
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Friday, March 11, 2022 |
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Blangiardi meets with FTA to discuss Honolulu Rail Project
By News Release @ 2:14 AM :: 2928 Views :: Rail
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... Mayor Blangiardi said, “Even though this was a very quick turn-around trip for me, the time I spent with the Administrator was well worth the trip" ....
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Wednesday, March 2, 2022 |
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Blangiardi Appoints Sheet Metal Union Boss to HART Board
By News Release @ 2:16 AM :: 3142 Views :: Honolulu County, Labor, Rail
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"...Art’s management background at Sheet Metal, Air, Rail and Transportation (SMART) Workers Local Union 293 and his experience on the Planning Commission make him the perfect candidate...."
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Friday, January 21, 2022 |
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Honolulu Rate Commission seeks input on TheBus, HandiVan fare changes
By News Release @ 5:29 PM :: 2649 Views :: Honolulu County, Rail
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... The Honolulu Rate Commission will be taking public testimony on proposed fare policy changes affecting TheBus and TheHandi-Van at its January 24th and February 8th meetings ....
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Tuesday, January 4, 2022 |
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New Ethics Comm Exec Director a Pro-Rail Corporate Lawyer and Lobbyist
By News Release @ 4:19 AM :: 3090 Views :: Environment, Ethics, Rail
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... Ethics Commission Chair Melinda Wood stated: “Mr. Harris has the right mix of public policy, litigation, and managerial experience to excel in this role." ....
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