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HI: Honolulu forced to stop work on controversial rail

By   /   August 28, 2012  /   Comments Off

By Malia Zimmerman | Hawaii Reporter

HONOLULU — Construction on Honolulu‘s controversial $5.2 billion elevated steel-on-steel rail project is coming to a halt.

David Frankel, an attorney with the Native Hawaiian Legal Corp., and officials from the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation met Tuesday to negotiate a resolution after the Hawaii Supreme Court dropped a bombshell on the rail project and its backers Friday.

In a unanimous 82-page opinion in Kaleikini v. Yoshioka, the justices said the city did not comply with the state’s historic preservation and burial protection laws, when it didn’t complete an archeological inventory survey for the 20-mile route before starting construction.

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