A proposed public-private partnership to complete Honolulu’s troubled light-rail system may be off the table due to pushback from city officials, but it is still making news as local transit officials have finally identified the two teams that bid on the project this summer.
City Center Construction Group—led by Dragados, Hawaiian Dredging Construction Co., and Obayashi Design Group, and Imua Transit Honolulu—with Tutor Perini and Parsons Corp. as major partners—each submitted bids in late July for a 30-year concession to design, build, operate and maintain the last four-mile, eight-station segment of the 20-mile elevated transit line, which to date has been funded by a Federal Transit Administration grant and local tax revenue.