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Let’s consider stopping at Middle Street and connecting the train to better transportation modes.

Longtime critics want to stop the elevated train at Middle Street, then embrace new transportation technologies for the rest of the route.

The city planning department has given the green light to the builders as long as they add more community benefits.

The manager of the Honolulu rail project says it needs to develop and secure an alternate route from Ala Moana Center in case it’s extended someday.

The HART board may be resurrecting a route plan far more ambitious than the one submitted to federal transit officials.

A little-noticed provision of the Legislature’s rail bailout bill could pay dividends as new members join the HART board.

The state budget director and others are tasked with bringing more accountability to the project, even though they’re nonvoting members.

Most of the money came from developers, laborers and contractors with a stake in the Honolulu rail project. 

County councils say state lawmakers should follow open meeting laws, even though they’re not legally required to.

Those costs had been covered by general excise tax revenue, but the legislative bailout requires that money to be used only for construction.