Honolulu Approves $2.79B Rail Spending Plan
The Honolulu Star-Advertiser – December 30, 2011
A six-year, $2.79 billion construction spending plan has been approved by the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) for the city’s rail project for the period from 2013 to 2018. The plan includes $1.83 billion for construction spending on the 20-mile raised guideway, and $482 million for equipment purchases. As the largest public works project in Hawaii history, the entire rail project is estimated to cost $5.27 billion.
HART officials estimate that the city has spent $342 million in federal and local funds on the rail project so far on planning, preliminary designs, environmental studies and other work. Construction on the elevated guideway, which will carry the train, is scheduled to begin in the first part of 2012. The Tom Warne Report