The plan of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation to appoint former state Sen. Robert Bunda as its final voting member is baffling. Previous appointments to HART by Mayor Peter Carlisle and the City Council were politically connected people with zero experience running a commuter rail system. No personal knock on Bunda, who was a [...]
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Bunda a curious choice for transit authority
September 8, 2011Rail car snag will show what HART is made of
August 3, 2011I’d love to be a fly on the wall when the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation goes into executive session Thursday to discuss the city’s troubled $1.45 billion contract with Ansaldo Honolulu to provide and operate cars for the $5.3 billion rail system. In two disturbing developments last week, the city admitted it made no [...]
Is Water Board out of control?
July 29, 2011In the fight with the City Council over control of the new rail authority, HART, the Carlisle administration has often cited the Board of Water Supply as a shining example of a semi-autonomous agency that sets its own spending without council oversight. Former Councilman Charles Djou turned that reasoning around in an op-ed piece in [...]
HART saves the fight for another day
July 5, 2011Members of the new Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation were smart to sidestep a lawsuit over who sets its budget, but it remains to be seen if the matter is settled or just postponed for a year. The City Council insists it has the right under the City Charter to approve HART’s annual budget, while [...]
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