The HART board chair said she’d like to see it happen sooner.

UPDATED: Those investigating the cracks have disagreed about their severity, but the final report still isn’t out.

UPDATED: The model for how to handle transit security varies from place to place. Honolulu considered using HPD but went a different route.

Saturday’s drill was a step toward rail going operational. Questions remain on some of the structural cracking, however.

Rail’s top executive said her agency has already fixed the problems with so-called “frogs” and it’s an old issue being dredged up.

HART dismissed the worries of a former track consultant as “the opinions of one individual.” A newly released memo indicates he’s not alone.

Mayor Rick Blangiardi called the development a “joyous and a historic day for us.”

UPDATED: If, by now, “we have not learned how to build rail, then we have no right to do so,” Colleen Hanabusa told the FTA.

The Honolulu rail agency said the losing bid, at $900 million, received a “significantly lower” score.

It’s not clear, however, whether the project’s latest pier-cracking woes would force HART to repeat the trial running sometime later.