HART’s Hamayasu En Route to D.C.

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Honolulu rail CEO Toru Hamayasu is on his way to Washington for a meeting with Peter Rogoff, administrator of the Federal Transit Administration.  The trip comes the week after Honolulu’s rail project got the feds’ go-ahead to enter into the “final design” phase. 

With that step forward, though, came a reminder about the necessity of Honolulu “further strengthen(ing)” the financial plan for the project.  

Read more about Hamayasu’s trip from Civil Beat’s Michael Levine.

Here’s a photo from the last time Civil Beat caught up with Toru, Carrie Okinaga and Mayor Peter Carlisle in D.C.:

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