[4K] Skyline - Honolulu Rail Transit on 5/8/24 in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
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- Skyline - Honolulu Rail Transit on 5/8/24 in Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii.
Riding the Skyline from Hoaeae (West Loch) to Halawa (Aloha Stadium).
Skyline is a light metro system in the City and County of Honolulu on the island of Oʻahu, in the state of Hawaiʻi. Phase 1 of the project opened June 30, 2023 and lies entirely outside of Urban Honolulu, linking East Kapolei and Aloha Stadium.
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Thank you for sharing!
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really great video, thank you for sharing
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Nice walk sights 🏖🏖🏖
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The next segment to Kalihi Transit Center opens at the end of next year, It'll be even more convenient once it opens then.
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thank you nice to see most recent update, nice if could see the construction Dillingham coverage
OK, I will try next time. 🙂
Where's Tulsi? Very clean, just like the tubes to Hoboken.
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02:45 Surprising to see how much mildew, or whatever is discoloring the stairs in only a year of operation. Anyone cleaning there?
Maybe they are cutting cost? 🙂
@@HawaiiOnBudget One can cut costs by not using toilet paper. Being only a year old, the appearance of the stairway is unacceptable.
Empty. No way this ever breaks even
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“Under earlier plans rail was supposed to have started running from East Kapolei to Aloha Stadium in September 2016, but that interim opening has now been pushed to July 2020, according to the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transit.
The full 20-mile route’s opening has been pushed to December 2025” Star Advertiser 3/17/2017
The interim opening was seven years late, and the agreement with the feds said 20.1 miles, 21 stations for $5.12 billion, in full revenue operation by 1/31/2020. According to hart’s 2022 “recovery” plan, they will complete 18.9 miles, 19 stations for $9.933 billion, $4.8 billion over budget, and in revenue operation in 2031, 11 years late. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Very insightful. 🙂
Better late than never, it already helps me breeze past morning and afternoon traffic over the H1
@@georgemann3369 Glad someone is enjoying it. At $94 million for the first year’s running expenses (per DTS) vs 1.1 million paying riders for that year, the subsidy per passenger is in excess of $80. Like the bus and handi-van, the difference is paid out of the general fund, which is 80% funded by our property taxes.
“It was a short answer to a loaded question: How much will rail operations and maintenance cost Oahu property owners in taxes?
The response (from deputy director of the city Department of Budget and Fiscal Services Gary Kurokawa) was that broadly speaking and ‘using today’s numbers,’ property taxpayers can expect to see a 9 percent increase in rates to subsidize annual operational costs for the 20-mile rail system when it comes online in late 2021.” Star Advertiser 1/26/2016
According to hart’s 6/3/2022 “recovery” plan, operations and maintenance expenses will exceed $150 million per year by 2030, even before they complete the now truncated route to the mythical “civic center.”
@gsn794 DTS's Roger Morton stated in an interview taken during Skyline's opening that no matter how many riders Skyline gets, they only ever expect to recover at most 30% of its operating costs through ticket fares.
Public transit isn't about being profitable, It's about being accessible. The government isn't a for profit corporation. While operational efficiency is absolutely something that should not be ignored, even TheBus would be scrapped if looking purely from an economic standing at how much it's subsidized. It is a core part of hundreds of thousands of people's daily commutes, and that's not a number that got there in a day, and eventually (I'd say in 2045) Skyline will get to that point too.
While I do agree that HART's decision to terminate the current system at the Civic Center station (at the corner of South/Halekuwila) is questionable at best, most probably won't need to go that far. a vast majority of bus riders take buses into town via commuter or all-day routes and transfer to a connector to get them the last mile to their final destination. DTS has already planned out how these connections will take place (assuming these plans haven't changed since 2014), since Skyline is not meant to be a stand alone system, instead working to supplement TheBus's currently decreasing capacity to serve the increasing number of transit riders.
In conclusion, while you can put an 80 dollar price tag on per-rider subsidies, you can't put a price tag on the convenience or the decreased amount of stress and saved time not sitting in H-1 traffic in the afternoons (albeit the time saved isn't a whole lot considering TheBus sometimes gets caught up in it on it's way to Aloha Stadium). I want to be a part of the traffic solution, not the traffic problem, and I want to have choices on how I get from point A to point B, that doesn't solely depend on me using a car to get there. I hope you understand, and have a great day!
Nice ride but those passengers with kids are very unruly. No safety rules. What happens if the train abruptly stops, they’ll fly all over or even get thrown out of a train.
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That’s not how the system works. It’s an automated train and only stops at stations. There are no grade crossings either. There is no reason it would ever make an “abrupt stop.”
Damaged track