06-29-2015, 07:16 AM
Probably sooner rather than later.
There's been an update on the story about Hawaii sitting on federal highway funds. Some of the findings:
The Federal Highway Administration review found that the Hawaii DOT "...does not track and manage projects in real time."
Hawaii had $820 million worth of unused federal highway aid sitting on the books waiting to be spent in 2013, about five times the roughly $160 million in highway funds the state gets from the federal government each year.
The money is "waiting to be spent on vital transportation projects that could stoke the state's economy and bring transportation benefits to the public," the FHA report said.
"I'd like to see an investigation take place as to why it's taking so long, why the delays are occurring," Caton said.
"Civil servants in the system have been there year after year after year. And so we're really going to have to change the culture of the Department of Transportation," Kim said.
The federal review found the average time a federally funded state highways project takes to get started in Hawaii is nearly one year -- 350 days. That's three to four times as long as nine other states, where it took an average of 80 to 100 days to go from federal project approval to giving the contractor a "notice to proceed."
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/28948...ct-backlog
There's been an update on the story about Hawaii sitting on federal highway funds. Some of the findings:
The Federal Highway Administration review found that the Hawaii DOT "...does not track and manage projects in real time."
Hawaii had $820 million worth of unused federal highway aid sitting on the books waiting to be spent in 2013, about five times the roughly $160 million in highway funds the state gets from the federal government each year.
The money is "waiting to be spent on vital transportation projects that could stoke the state's economy and bring transportation benefits to the public," the FHA report said.
"I'd like to see an investigation take place as to why it's taking so long, why the delays are occurring," Caton said.
"Civil servants in the system have been there year after year after year. And so we're really going to have to change the culture of the Department of Transportation," Kim said.
The federal review found the average time a federally funded state highways project takes to get started in Hawaii is nearly one year -- 350 days. That's three to four times as long as nine other states, where it took an average of 80 to 100 days to go from federal project approval to giving the contractor a "notice to proceed."
http://www.hawaiinewsnow.com/story/28948...ct-backlog
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