The Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART) has awarded a 1.66 billion USD contract to Tutor Perini Corporation for the design and construction of the City Center Guideway and Stations (CCGS) segment of the Honolulu Rail Transit project.
The Honolulu Rail Transit project is constructing an automated fixed-guideway rail system along Oʻahu’s south shore. The first phase of the project opened in June 2023.
This project represents the first fully automated, driverless urban light metro system in the US. It is also Hawaii’s largest public infrastructure project.
The newly awarded contract is the largest in the project’s history. It includes the construction of six rail stations and approximately three miles of elevated guideway from just east of the Middle Street Transit Center Station to the Civic Center Station near Halekauwila Street and South Street.
Project design will commence once the contract is executed in mid-September 2024. Construction is then expected to begin in the latter half of 2025 and will be completed in 2030.
“This is another huge milestone for our rail project. This is the largest single contract of the entire project and sets the course for completing the project through downtown Honolulu. We are excited to begin work with Tutor Perini to make this happen.”
This contract award is set to unlock an additional 250 million USD in federal funding under the amended Full Funding Grant Agreement (FFGA). This adds to the 931 million USD that HART has already received from the original 1.55 billion USD grant signed in 2012.
