Officials for the Honolulu Rail Project have announced that they will be spending an additional $4.25 million to redesign the track operations at the main maintenance storage facility. The 43-acre facility, located near the Leeward Community College, will have to be reconfigured so that its tracks can support "automated train operations" that won't require workers to manually move train cars around the yard. There will also be a test track at the facility, additional cabling for the automated track system, a car-unloading dock and more grading and utilities. Rail officials stated that these changes will make the storage facility safer and less expensive to operate in the long run. Unfortunately, the $4.25 million that is being allocated will only pay for the costs associated with the redesign and not for the eventual construction costs associated with the changes. Critics of the project question why the upgrades were not part of the original designs to begin with.
Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser, 2-14-2014, www.staradvertiser.com
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