HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) – As the city approaches this week’s opening of the second rail segment from Halawa to Middle Street, Hawaii News Now takes a look back at the windy road that brought us here.
Decades of disagreement
Talk of a rail project to ease Oahu’s traffic troubles first began in 1968, when Neal Blaisdell was the mayor.
His successor, Frank Fasi, championed the idea of a 29-mile rail line from Hawaii Kai to Pearl City a year later.
However, Fasi lost his re-election bid in 1980…