Rail ridership aboard the city’s new Skyline rail system continued to fall in its third week of operation, according to the city.
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The board is pressing Skyline’s executive director for more financial information about ongoing construction and questioning why the board was not made fully aware of a $99 million lawsuit filed by a contractor.
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After receiving no objections from the city, Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation’s plan to condemn one family’s industrially zoned property in Kalihi can now move forward in order to complete the nearly $10 billion rail line as designed.
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The number of passengers paying to ride the Skyline rail system for the initial five days after free fares ended July 4 has leaped to 18,329 from 8,127 because passengers who transferred from TheBus were not originally counted as train riders, the city Department of Transportation Services said Monday.
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The first day of paid rail ridership saw a drop in interest, as expected, with only 1,245 passengers boarding Skyline trains.
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Wednesday’s ridership numbers represented a steep contrast to the 8,952 passengers who packed trains for the inaugural four hours of free service on Friday.
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More than 71,000 passengers boarded the city’s new Skyline rail system over the initial five days of free rides — with the first full day of paid rides expected to provide the first real indication of how much interest people have in riding rail’s initial 11 miles.
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Question: How often are the Skyline train cars cleaned?
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- By Esme M. Infante
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July 1, 2023
City officials in a Q&A with the Honolulu Star-Advertiser said they believe the rail to be a safe and economical mode of transportation for riders of all ages, including children.
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A loud cheer erupted when the first of more than 200 passengers were finally let into the Halawa Station, located across Salt Lake Boulevard from Aloha Stadium.
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- By Star-Advertiser staff
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June 30, 2023
A grand opening ceremony kicks off this morning at the Halawa station next to the Aloha Stadium.
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Opening the city’s rail project for passenger service seemed a near impossibility just 2-1/2 years ago when it was digging a deeper financial hole and federal transit officials had lost faith and were withholding millions of dollars in badly needed funding.
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The Hawaii State Supreme Court heard 90 minutes of oral arguments Thursday over an eminent domain dispute involving the construction of a planned rail station within real estate developer Howard Hughes Corp.’s 60-acre master-planned property in Kakaako.
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On the eve of the biggest milestone in the often-troubled history of Honolulu’s $9.8 billion rail project, the executive director and CEO of the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation received a performance evaluation that she described as an overall “C-minus.”
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In the interim, the Halawa rail station with a 590-stall automobile park-and-ride lot has been positioned as more of a transportation node for catching TheBus into town or riding rail into westward communities including Pearl City, Waipahu and East Kapolei.
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Most of Pearlridge Center, which covers 45 acres, is a 5- to 10-minute walk from the station along Kamehameha Highway and Kaonohi.
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HART contends that Waiawa station even without the garage will still be highly used, due to expanded bus connections, over a longer term after an initial segment of Skyline service starts Friday.
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