The Incompetence of HART. Cheapest Bid for 9 Stations Comes 75% Over Budget!

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Panos Prevedouros
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Panos Prevedouros, a professor of engineering at the University of Hawaii
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Panos Prevedouros, a professor of engineering at the University of Hawaii
Panos Prevedouros, a professor of engineering at the University of Hawaii

BY PANOS PREVEDOUROS PHD – Here is good coverage of the situation in the Hawaii Reporter.

Some additional comments:

  • The pain in cost overruns and construction congestion will be severe. The only thing we can do now is kick the people responsible for rail out of office.  Six are out already (Mufi, Peter, Linda, Neil, Stanley, Rida*)
  • These nine stations are the relatively easy ones to build… A couple of them are in empty fields. Imagine the cost of remaining 12 stations in Kalihi, downtown, Kakaako near the water…
  • The next traffic calamity by the elevated rail is the passing of the guideway over the H1/H2 merge.
  • After that is the partial loss of Kamehameha Hwy. in Aiea for a year or so.
  • After that is the debilitating impacts at and near the airport (Hawaii’s tourism economy lifeline.)

So far we’ve been talking about politics, trials, concrete poles, contracts and money. We have not seen much of the rail’s traffic congestion. The real suffering should start early in 2015.

Recall that the geniuses at HART purchased miles of steel rails in 2010 and since then they rot unused at Barbers Point Harbor.  These rails won’t be put in service for about 10 years.

(*) ex mayor Mufi Hannemann, ex mayor Peter Carlisle,  ex governor Linda Lingle, ex governor Neil Abercrombie, ex council member Stanley Chang, ex representative Rida Cabanilla.)

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  1. So, what kind of real-world experience does the professor have that qualifies him to judge these things? Has he ever designed or constructed any project of substance in his life? Building a major project in any urban area, whether a new highway or a transit line, will cause traffic disruption and you do not need a PhD to predict this! Why doesn't the Hawaii Reporter give a balanced picture by publishing the other point of view? Sour grapes!

    • Are you living under a rock?
      You got to be "concerned" I bet you are ?
      With your kind of thinking you may not like what you are reading here ….
      And Yes I rather believe an honorable PHD.
      Aloha and god bless.
      P.s:who will pay for these things?

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