BACK TO WORK
Construction crews return to work drilling column shafts in East Kapolei.
After a year-long delay, construction of the Honolulu rail transit project has resumed.
At sunrise this past Monday, HART and City officials gathered together with construction crews from contractor Kiewit Infrastructure West Company to mark the return to work.
Dozens of workers are back on the job this week. Crews are busy drilling, pouring concrete, and grading in West Oahu for the first portion of the 20-mile rail route. And in the coming months, about 1,600 more jobs will be added to the mix.
HART Executive Director and CEO Dan Grabauskas thanks construction workers before their return to work.
"We're moving forward, and we're happy about that," said Dan Grabauskas, HART executive director and CEO. "We look forward to getting people back to work and getting this project done."
In addition to column construction work in East Kapolei, workers have also returned to jobs at the future home of the rail system's operations and control center in Waipahu near Leeward Community College, and along Farrington Highway, where they will relocate utility lines and conduct soil tests.
Workers will build more columns to add to the 16 already erected in East Kapolei.
