A devastatingly critical report detailing chronic problems in the State Historic Preservation Division warns that continued mismanagement and financial constraints facing the office could cause economically significant delays in major projects that must meet federal standards for protection of historic and cultural resources. Department of Defense construction projects, as well as other large federally funded [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Honolulu rail project'
Problems in State Historic Preservation Division could impact city’s proposed rail project
March 26th, 2010 · 2 Comments · Business, History, Politics
Tags: Honolulu rail project·State Historic Preservation Division
Another nibble or two at the rail issue
March 25th, 2010 · 5 Comments · Politics
Interesting little rail item in today’s Advertiser story by Sean Hao (“Honolulu rail project will have to pick up tab for airport route fix“). Hao reports the city used an outdated plan when designing the airport route. The airport layout plan used by the city for its analysis was drafted in the mid-1990s and had [...]
Tags: Honolulu rail project
City managing director responds on HPR, and Legislature tries another route to undermine legal reviews of the rail EIS
March 9th, 2010 · 1 Comment · Politics
We were just a couple of blocks from home on the last leg of yesterday’s early morning walk when a friend stopped her car and rolled down the window. She was laughing. “You’re being quoted on public radio right now!” It was a surprise to me. It was late afternoon before I learned that Honolulu [...]
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 [...]
Tags: honolulu high capacity transit project·Honolulu rail project·Light Rail·Mufi Hannemann
The basic problem of today’s rail debate
March 5th, 2010 · 12 Comments · Politics
Here’s the basic problem with all the back-and-forth of the past few days over competing types of rail: The city failed to follow-through with its often-repeated promises that the most obvious and tested alternative, light rail transit, would be thoroughly considered and any final selection of a particular technology would come only that analysis of [...]
Tags: Honolulu rail project
Responses show rail a very hot topic
March 3rd, 2010 · 30 Comments · Politics
Hmmmm. Honolulu’s mayor has proposed a , $1.8 billion city operating budget and nearly as much in a separate $1.3 billion CIP line for the rail project. I would call that an attention-getter! Here are several items for the rail file, a series by a Canadian group critical of Vancouver’s SkyTrain, which is the model [...]
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Rail commentary on Hawaii Public Radio
March 2nd, 2010 · 4 Comments · General
I did a brief commentary about Honolulu’s proposed rail system that was broadcast yesterday on Hawaii Public Radio. You can listen to it online. Just click here. Or, if you prefer, read the text. I’ve been invited to submit a commentary on a current issue each month. The next one is scheduled for broadcast on [...]
Tags: Honolulu rail project
Thinking about the billionaire’s plans for news, labor and journalism, and did you notice Honolulu Weekly?
November 21st, 2009 · 22 Comments · Media, Politics
I started getting emails Wednesday morning following eBay chairman Pierre Omidyar’s announcement of the planned launch of “a Honolulu-based local news service that will produce original, in-depth reporting and analysis of local issues in Hawaii.” Plans which, they way, will create a profitable and sustainable enterprise. All I could think of was, “Good luck!” Seriously, [...]
