Honolulu Light Rail

[fairviewroad]

Hawaii Struggles to Keep Rail Project From Becoming a Boondoggle

The project was initially projected to cost $4.6 billion, but that number now is $6.7 billion, forcing the city in January to approve a five-year extension of a general excise tax surcharge to help cover the overrun.

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“People are very angry about it,” said Mayor Kirk Caldwell of Honolulu, as he drove through the streets of his city. “But we are now heading toward eight miles completed. It’s like we are pregnant — we can’t just stop and tear it down.”

 

[John Bredin]

Hawaii Struggles to Keep Rail Project From Becoming a Boondoggle

The project was initially projected to cost $4.6 billion, but that number now is $6.7 billion, forcing the city in January to approve a five-year extension of a general excise tax surcharge to help cover the overrun.

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“People are very angry about it,” said Mayor Kirk Caldwell of Honolulu, as he drove through the streets of his city. “But we are now heading toward eight miles completed. It’s like we are pregnant — we can’t just stop and tear it down.”

The story is more-or-less balanced, but the headline certainly isn't. :wacko: The picture of the highway traffic balances out the picture of an el through an empty field (which I would guess to be the only such open land along the line, but a gift to opposition photographers) and succinctly answers the "el through a tropical paradise" insinuations of the first paragraph; Honolulu is an urban center like Boston, if not like New York.

Ah, New Yorkers: "better transit for me but not for thee." :giggle:

 

[sechs]

How long did it take to get the H3 built? That goes straight through virgin jungle.