Inside Honolulu reports:

Honolulu mayoral candidate Ben Cayetano today unveiled his transportation plan for Oahu. He estimates the plan will cost $1.1 billion — roughly 1/5 of the rail project’s projected price tag.

He’s calling it “FAST”: Flexible Affordable Smart Transportation

Here are some highlights:

• Express Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) for Leeward and Central Oahu as well as a College Express BRT connecting the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Hawaii Pacific University, Honolulu Community College and everything in between

• Added Traffic Lanes on King Street* and Nimitz Highway 

• Contraflow lanes on King St. and Dillingham Blvd.* to accommodate rush-hour traffic and dedicated BRT Lanes.

• Short underpasses to reduce in-town congestion

• A 2-mile elevated reversible Nimitz Flyover for express travel from the airport viaduct to Iwilei and downtown Honolulu

• Island-wide traffic signal optimization and 21^st century traffic management systems

Check out more here.

— Alia Wong