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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Honolulu rail transit'
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
Consultant says Honolulu transit project open to legal challenge, but light rail alternative would not significantly delay project
October 9th, 2009 · 18 Comments · Politics
Phil Craig, the consultant who prepared the alternative rail study for Kamehameha Schools, spelled out in a recent email the reasons he believes the city’s rail project is vulnerable to legal challenge. I’m taking the liberty of quoting him at length. I suggest a careful read of the Notice of Intent to Prepare an Environmental [...]
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Rail consultant’s letter draws reactions
September 22nd, 2009 · 14 Comments · Politics
A letter to the editor in yesterday’s Honolulu Advertiser from Mark Scheibe, vp at Parsons Brinckerhoff, the city’s primary transit consultant, pointed to several prior studies that recommended against a light rail system running at street level. He argued: In 1976 an “Analysis of Transit Alternatives” looked at a light rail alternative that included grade-separated [...]
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Kamehameha School’s plan puts organization fully into transit debate
September 13th, 2009 · 5 Comments · Politics
Back in April 2009, the local chapter of the American Institute of Architects held a panel discussion at which a mainland transit consultant predicted Honolulu’s rail EIS could be “in trouble”. As I wrote at the time, the problem is “the city failed to deliver an environmental impact study that fulfilled what was promised in [...]
Monday…Light rail manufacturer pulls out of Honolulu transit bidding, update on door-to-door security sales, DCCA administrative decisions need updating, and meet a few of our morning dogs
July 6th, 2009 · 2 Comments · Dogs, General, Politics, video
The Advertiser’s Sean Hao reports today that there are only three bidders for the initial rail contract here in Honolulu. Hao correctly notes that the specifications for these contracts lock in a particular technology, despite prior official statements that the specific technology would not be chosen until the environmental impact statement was completed and officials [...]
Wednesday…City rail symposium disappoints, and documents from furlough lawsuit and Superferry bankruptcy
June 24th, 2009 · 2 Comments · General, Politics
How time flies. I “knew” it was Wednesday because the crew arrived at 5:30 a.m. to pick up our trash. But my brain still let a “Tuesday” headline into the original version of this entry. An early morning short-circuit! There was a lot of traintosterone at Blaisdell Center yesterday at the city’s rain transit symposium, [...]
Tuesday…Free rail symposium today, advertising and blogging, and a rainy morning
June 23rd, 2009 · 5 Comments · Media
I’m heading off this morning to attend the city’s rail transit symposium at the Blaisdell. Funny thing about it is that the city has been featuring Dan Doyle, who was a transit official in Vancouver, B.C. during construction of the SkyTrain system, the model for Honolulu’s proposed system. But most of the rest of the [...]
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