The Federal Transit Administration is withholding its next allotment of $250 million in grant money for the Honolulu rail project until the City Council approves a five-year extension of the general excise tax surcharge that’s paying for majority of the $6.6 billion project, Mayor Kirk Caldwell’s office said in a statement Friday. Caldwell is currently […]
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