HART Leaders Are Concerned That Feds Still Haven’t Approved Rail’s Recovery Plan 0 If, by now, “we have not learned how to build rail, then we have no right to do so,” Colleen Hanabusa told the FTA.
More than three months have passed since the city submitted its latest plan to rescue rail, and the Federal Transit Administration has yet to approve it.
That has Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation board Chair Colleen Hanabusa concerned – and impatient for an affirmative response from the project’s federal partners.
Without that approval, Oahu’s struggling rail transit project will continue to lack access to its nearly $750 million in remaining federal funding.
“We were expecting to hear back on the recovery plan two months ago,” Hanabusa said Friday.
