Honolulu is whittling down the list of things it needs to do before it can build an elevated rail line.
The most recent item knocked of the check-list: Clearance to enter into the “final design” phase. (Read the complete story.) A series of messages about the news were posted to Sen. Daniel Inouye‘s Twitter account on Thursday night. Here’s one of them:

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