Legal Opinion
Honolulutraffic.Com v. Federal Transit Administration
Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit
Decided February 18, 2014No. 13-15277PublishedCited by 15 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
SCHROEDER, Circuit Judge:
I. INTRODUCTION
This litigation represents a challenge to the construction of a 20-mile, high-speed rail system (the “Project”) from the western portion of Oahu through the downtown area of Honolulu, Hawaii. Honolulu has been unsuccessfully struggling to cope with traffic congestion since the midl960s. That was when Congress passed the Urban Mass Transportation Act of 1964, later amended in the Federal-Aid Highway Act of 1978, which mandated the creation of Metropolitan Planning boards to develop long-range plans for efficient public transportation. See 49…
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