She also expressed hope that an exception allowing welders from the mainland to work in Hawaii should enable key wheel and track fixes to begin soon.

The trains may cause voltage swings as they leave the stations, so HART has agreed to install equipment to stabilize the power.

The city’s troubled rail project would receive much of the new revenue despite objections to that plan from some critics of rail.

Report by a committee of HART board members claims there may be hundreds of millions of dollars in new revenue or cost savings to be had.

UPDATED: The FTA has been withholding the local transit project’s federal dollars for the past seven years as its struggles have mounted.

Current funding will get the rail line to Chinatown, but it needs to get at least to downtown to be functional, city leaders say.

A new report gives the rail agency the green light to replace the steel wheels instead of the track crossings.

The West Oahu legislator has become an especially vocal critic of the local rail agency.

The high-stakes battle could involve a claim of more than $200 million in damages, according to the rail agency.

The much-anticipated analysis will shed light on a major problem that must be fixed before interim rail service can start.