Talk about bad timing for the mono rail.
NYTimes.com... sometime this spring, a $5.3 billion project is scheduled to rise from the Kapolei farmlands that offers powerful evidence of how much this island, a symbol of Pacific tranquillity, is changing. A 40-year battle to build a mass transit line appears to be nearing its end. Barring a court intervention, construction is to begin in March on a 20-mile rail line that will be elevated 40 feet in the air, barreling over farmland, commercial districts and parts of downtown Honolulu, and stretching from here to Waikiki.
...“It is really a lunatic project. There is no other way to describe it,” said Panos Prevedouros, a professor of civil engineering at the University of Hawaii and a past candidate for Honolulu mayor. “It’s twice as expensive — for only 20 miles of track — as the Washington Metro.”
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