05-03-2018, 05:55 AM
You can believe what you want, but 316.5 million dollars isn't available all at once to complete this project in one shot. This is why there was roughly 8 phases to this 13 year project. The state of Hawaii receives roughly 160 million dollars in FHWA funds each fiscal year to fund highway improvements throughout Hawaii. This is why other funding sources were used to find these improvements, such as Defense Access Roads. The latter is capped at 20 million dollars a year per project.