At Least $1.25B Has Been Spent On Rail So Far — Where’s It Gone?
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City Council members aren’t a usually ones disturbed they’re removing a runaround when it comes to following how a income is being spent on Honolulu’s $6 billion and counting commuter rail project.
State lawmakers contend they too wish some answers on a spending habits of a Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation that final month lifted a ghost of outrageous cost overruns on construction of a 20-mile rail complement stretching opposite a southern girth of Oahu.
On a line is a due taxation increase. Both HART officials and Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell wish lawmakers to make permanent a half-percent surcharge on a state’s ubiquitous dig taxation to assistance compensate for a project.
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