Mayor Rick Blangiardi pledged Wednesday night to make city services work faster for Oʻahu’s residents.

Gov. Josh Green is negotiating an agreement with a Japanese rail conglomerate to work on transit-oriented development along the Skyline.

The city center segment of the $10B rail project is supposed to open in March 2031, but an outside consultant questions whether that plan is still feasible.

The mayors decided against asking the Legislature for a 20-year extension of the general excise tax surcharge for rail and other transportation projects to allow time for more due diligence.

The four mayors agreed last week to seek a tax extension from the Legislature not only to pay for the rail but neighbor island transportation needs as well.

Honolulu’s rail authority is alleging Hitachi Rail Honolulu JV knew the claims it made in its lawsuit last month were ‘false and misleading.’

The settlement gives the city the easements it needs to build through Kakaʻako, but HART does not yet have the money to construct that segment.

Construction crews have torn up not just the streets but also the sidewalks, leading to potential ADA violations.

Hitachi Rail Honolulu JV, which is still on the job, refiles a suit alleging HART exhibited an ‘inability to learn’ from its mistakes.

It took years for the city to set up a program helping businesses that were negatively impacted by rail construction. Now, that program is underutilized and insufficient, business owners say.