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The PHX Sky Train (formerly known as the Sky Harbor Airport Automated People Mover ) is a people mover under construction at Sky Harbor International Airport in Phoenix, Arizona.[1] Shuttle buses along Sky Harbor Boulevard currently connect METRO's Airport station (called "44th Street and Washington") with all terminals; these will be replaced by the people mover once it opens.
Sky Train will feature a 100-foot-tall (30 m) bridge over the taxiway that connects the north and south runways, the first location in the world where a train will pass over an airplane.[2][3]
Phase I of construction, underway since December 2008, will link Terminal 4, the East Economy Parking lot, and the 44th Street light rail station (the latter via a moving sidewalk bridge). Eventually, Sky Train will link to all airport terminals and the Rental Car Center. It will run in a new guideway, using an underpass (below the Union Pacific railroad) which was part of former State Route 153. Estimated cost was just over $1 billion in 2005, which is close to the cost of the 20-mile METRO line.[4] Sky Train Phase I is to be completed in 2013; Phase II, which connects to Terminals 2 and 3 is scheduled to be open in 2015, and the entire system should be complete by 2020.[5]
Rolling stock will consist of Bombardier Innovia APM 200 vehicles, being Bombardier's second installation in the United States for such model (after the Skylink APM at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport), and third installation worldwide (after DFW's Skylink APM and the Terminal 5 APM at London Heathrow International Airport.)
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