![]() Whereas automated elevated trains are in use world wide, I''m not so sure Honolulu had a large enough economy and tax base to support one. H1 is squeezed between Pearl Harbor and Mountains - a natural chokepoint - which is why it is so congested. Oahu's topology favors rail transit as a means to move large numbers of people around a circular corridor. I suspected that those are for platform doors, and when I checked on Station Design and Features, I found that that is indeed the case. Some of the stations (1m and 2m in the video) has what looks like posts and wall segments on the train sides of the platforms. The video ends at Lagoon Drive, where construction has recently started. It goes through Pearl Harbor and Airport stations, and we find them under construction along the way. Beyond that, the trackway ends, and what is next is a line of trackway-support columns. At Aloha Stadium, all we see of the stations is the beginnings of the platforms. It then goes eastward, then southeastward to its east end, at Ala Moana.įrom that December 2018 video, the tracks are in place and the stations under construction from East Kapolei to Pearlridge, and at Pearlridge, the station construction is not as far as for the others, with the platforms still being under construction. The line's west end is at East Kapolei, and it goes northeastward, then southeastward and southward around Pearl Harbor, that infamously-attacked naval base. HART also released videos of its progress every now and then, like this one: Construction Progress Video - Dec 2018 To get an overall view, go to a map like Route Map Honolulu Transit | Flickr - pictures of its progress. HART has recently accepted its sixth trainset out of the 20 four-car trainsets that it has ordered. ![]() The Honolulu Rail Transit Project is abuzz with activity! All 20 miles of the alignment are seeing varying degrees of construction work, from station construction in the west to utility relocation work near the Project's final stop at Ala Moana. News from the Honolulu Rail Transit Project - Take a Walk through HART's State-of-the-Art Railcars Therefore I rely on others to report more on this project. It consists of having done a refueling stop at PHNL from 2 to 4AM during '68 enroute home from VVTS. Hopes it might transform the crowded island city anytime soon are fading.Īlthough I claim to have set foot in all fifty States, my "claim" to done so in Hawaii is very tenuous. More than a decade after inception, having spanned the tenures of three mayors and three governors and outlived its most powerful benefactor in Congress, the project is only half built. The 20-mile route parallels one of the world’s most glorious tropical shorelines. The dream was an elevated rail system to bypass what has been some of the country’s worst traffic, whisking commuters from the farmland and swelling suburbs of West Oahu into the heart of Honolulu. HONOLULU-The train through paradise should have been complete by now. It appears The Journal enjoys "Editorializing" on the front page (much as Rush and Sean say of The Times) about the boondoggle HART has apparently become. Honolulu Rail Transit Project - Official Site also has the news. ![]() Cliff Slater of, which has sued the city to stop the rail project, told Hawaii News Now: "All they want to do is give the impression that this is a done deal and say to the public shut up and take your medicine and this is going to go forward."īut the Honolulu City Council seems to have decided that it was an acceptable risk, and that it was more productive to build rather than wait for that court to decide. ![]() Honolulu's Rail Project Resumes Construction After A Rocky Start Even today, a legal challenge has yet to be decided by a federal appellate court, which leads some critics to believe that resuming construction is premature. The project was halted for 13 months after the Hawaii Supreme Court demanded that the city conduct archeological studies throughout the 20-mile Kapolei-Ala Moana route. 11: The Honolulu City Council passed Resolution 13-203 and Resolution 13-208 for restarting construction.Ĭonstruction restarts on the rail project after 13 months - Hawaii News - Honolulu Star-Advertiser City officials joined construction workers for a blessing in the Ewa fields as work restarted on the city's $5.26 billion rail project at dawn this morning.
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