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What happened to the light rail alternative to Honolulu’s transit plan?

March 8th, 2010 · 18 Comments · Politics

Thanks to RLB for returning to the issue of the city’s examination of alternatives in a comment a couple of days ago. He wrote, in part: I don’t pretend to understand the ins & outs of the Environmental Impact Statement planning and implementation, but I don’t see how your statements are supported by publicly available [...]

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Tuesday…Cooking the specs, or how to control the design of transit with behind-the-scenes decisions

May 12th, 2009 · 4 Comments · Politics

If the city budget scheduled to be passed next month includes the more than $1 Billion requested to fund the first large contracts for transit cars and initial construction of the elevated guideway and stations, it will be a major political coup for Honolulu Mayor Mufi Hannemann achieved as much through political trickery as political [...]

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