An Update on the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project

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Newsletter do Dept. of Transportation Services

City and County of Honolulu

650 South King St. 3rd floor

Honolulu, HI 96813

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Aloha! There is much progress to report in this issue of Honolulu On The Move.

The First Project On February 27, 2007, the Honolulu City Council gave final approval to the mass transit Minimum Operable Segment, the First Project that will be built. This is the initial phase of the fixed guideway transit system, Honolulu's locally preferred transit alternative. In this First Project, the fixed guideway transit system goes from East Kapolei (at the planned University of Hawai`i West 0`ahu) to Ala Moana Center, directly serving Leeward Community College, Pearlridge Center, Salt Lake, downtown Honolulu and other locations in between.

The council decision got extensive news coverage and the following news articles appear in our newsletter courtesy of the Honolulu Advertiser and Honolulu Star-Bulletin.

Public scoping meetings will be held at the following locations

Wednesday, March 28 Kapolei Hale 1000 Uluohia Street, Kapolei 6:00 pm - 9:00 pm

Thursday, March 29 McKinley High School Cafeteria 1039 South King Street 5:00 pm - 8:00 pm

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Preliminary Engineering Preliminary engineering produces estimates of project costs, benefits and impacts. As this work incorporates earlier planning, all of these estimates are much more refined and have a much greater degree of reliability and specificity. During preliminary engineering, project management and fleet management plans are finalized.

A comprehensive preliminary engineering effort also will address the FTAs New Starts project evaluation criteria. Information on project justification and the degree of local financial commitment is updated and reported, as appropriate. As part of preliminary engineering activities, FTA encourages local communities to consider policies and actions designed to enhance the benefits of the project, as well as its financial feasibility.

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Thank You Throughout the transit planning process, the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project public involvement team has worked to keep you informed and engaged. From our initial scoping meetings held in 2005 to the City Council meeting last month, you have taken the time to study this issue and share your opinions and concerns. We are extremely grateful to you for taking the time to participate and we hope you continue to stay involved as the project moves forward.

Newsletter Update We are in the process of updating our newsletter mailing

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need to take any action. If you'd no longer like to receive

this newsletter, please call the transit hotline at 566 -2299 or email us at www.honolulutransit.org

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The Honolulu City Council's selection of the East Kapolei to Ala Moana Center segment as the First Project was the latest event in a long process of analysis, evaluation and deliberation. After the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project team studied a wide range of transit alternatives, the team's findings, contained in the Alternatives Analysis (AA) Report, were presented to the City Council. This report provided City Council members with the information they needed to select the Locally Preferred Alternative (LPA). A summary of over 2,390 individual public testimony on the LPA and responses to questions from the public are available on our project website www.honolulutransit.org .

Why an LPA and a First Project? The LPA defines the long-range plan for a transit system, the complete route as we envision it today. The First Project represents the first portion of the system that is to be built within anticipated revenues — federal funding and money generated through the transit surcharge included in 0`ahu's general excise tax.

Next Steps The next steps include beginning work on the Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) and Preliminary Engineering (PE). Up to now the transit project has been a locally driven

project, with the City following guidance from the Federal Transit Administration (FTA). As we begin these next steps, FTA becomes a partner in the transit project. That means that at critical project points, we'll be seeking approvals from the federal government. It also means that work on this project will be conducted following appropriate city, state and federal guidelines, standards and criteria, and reviewed by the FTA.

Two transit routes are proposed for analysis in the EIS. Both alternatives encompass the full transit corridor as described in the LPA, going from West Kapolei to the University of Hawai'i at Manoa, and Waikiki. Both alternatives also include the First Project, between East Kapolei and Ala Moana Center. One alternative follows Salt Lake Boulevard between Aloha Stadium and Middle Street, while the other alternative includes both Salt Lake Boulevard and Airport alignments.

FTA and the City's Department of Transportation Services have completed one of the initial steps in the EIS process, by issuing a notice of intent to complete an EIS on the selected alternatives.

The EIS will be prepared to meet both federal and state requirements. On the federal level, the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (NEPA) and its

implementing regulations are applicable. On the state level, relevant law is found in Chapter 343 of the Hawai`i Revised Statutes.

Public Involvement in the EIS Process Next, we'll be soliciting public and agency input on the purpose of and needs to be addressed by the project, the alternatives to be considered, and the scope of the NEPA EIS for the project, including the environmental and community impacts to be evaluated.

Public scoping meetings will be held at the following locations: Kapolei Hale — 1000 Uluohia Street, Kapolei on March 28, 2007, from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. McKinley High School Cafeteria — 1039 South King Street on March 29, 2007, from 5:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. The public is invited to comment on:

• The purpose of and needs to be addressed by the project;

• The alternatives, including the technologies to be evaluated;

• Alignments (routes) and termination points to be considered; and

• The environmental, social, and economic impacts of the project to be analyzed.

Those individuals who do not attend the scoping meetings, but wish to submit comments, may send written comments to:

Department of Transportation Services City and County of Honolulu 650 South King Street, 3rd Floor Honolulu, HI 96813 Attention: Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project

You can also submit comments at www.honolulutransit.org . All comments must be received by April 13, 2007.

Scoping activities related to the Hawai`i Revised Statutes Chapter 343 process were completed between December 2005 and January 2006.

EIS Timeframe We anticipate that it will take about a year to complete the draft EIS. Once that work is done, the draft EIS will be available for public and agency review and comment and as part of that process, we'll be holding public hearings in communities within the transit corridor.

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