One of Honolulu’s two dailies devoted literally days and columns of news hole, commentary and editorial space in late March to an allegedly intractable problem for the rail project near Honolulu International Airport.
So much for intractable problems and months of delay. Mayor Mufi Hannemann today said the rail route will be moved one block mauka near Lagoon Drive to avoid a potential incursion into the Runway Protection Zone.
Most of the guideway near the airport will still follow Aolele Street, but beginning about 2,000 feet west of Lagoon Drive, it will shift one block mauka to Ualena Street. Importantly, the Federal Transit Administration has agreed to the mitigation, which removes one of the issues that’s been holding up the project’s Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS). The State Historical Preservation Division now will be asked to concur that the new alignment will not affect buildings deserving of historic preservation.
Alarmist reporting notwithstanding, the rail project is resolving the final remaining issues standing in the way of the FEIS’s presentation to the Governor’s office for its acceptance.
Posts mostly ended in 2012 when the author moved to California. Yes2Rail contains hundreds of posts, many refuting the opposition’s ongoing misinformation campaign (see "aggregation site" in red graf below). BTW, criticizing and dissecting political candidates' flawed/missing transit plans was not "attacking the candidate," as rail critics asserted. Yes2Rail – a reservoir of rail facts -- never attacked anybody. A big Mahalo for the positive comments Yes2Rail received over the years.
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