Hong Kong rail project doing well compared to Hawaii 夏威夷地鐵超支61%, 和香港地鐵項目相比 - 香港成本控制表現不俗

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Hong Kong rail project doing well compared to Hawaii 夏威夷地鐵超支61%, 和香港地鐵項目相比 - 香港成本控制表現不俗

Small Business Hawaii: Hawaii Rail Facing Huge $ Overruns from $5.6 to $9 billion +61%

Best non-news story of the week: HART (Honolulu Area Rapid Transit) is facing huge cost overruns in the bids for nine transit stations for Honolulu's bloated train to nowhere. This is no surprise and was predicted a year ago by Cliff Slater and the plaintiffs in the federal lawsuit (including SBH) against the city's $5.26 billion rail project. The CEO of HART, Dan Grabauskas, blames the higher bids on construction delays he says were caused by lawsuits against the rail project. The City budgeted $184 million for construction of the first nine rail stations, however, according to the Honolulu Star Advertiser, the lowest bid was $295 million and the highest was $321 million. Future contracts for segments of the fixed steel guideway also are expected to have cost overruns. The rail will likely cost $9 billion by the time it is built.