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Rail work on Dillingham Boulevard is definitely intensifying — and that can only increase difficulties for businesses all along the construction corridor. Not a moment too soon, the city has launched a new round of city subsidies for eligible businesses impacted by this construction. Applications for 40 grants of $10,000 each can be made at www.revitalizeoahu.org/tcmf-info; the deadline is 4 p.m. Nov. 6. Let’s hope refinements to eligibility and other convoluted red tape will mean more applications — and more grants being awarded to impacted small businesses that are struggling.