Honolulu Rail Transit

Honolulu Rail Transit Project
Overview
Type Elevated rail transit
Status Under construction
Locale Honolulu County, Hawaii
Termini East Kapolei
Ala Moana Center
Stations 21
Daily ridership 119,600 (2030 projection)[1]
Operation
Opening
  • Phase I: 2017
    (East Kapolei to Aloha Stadium)
  • Phase II: 2019
    (Aloha Stadium to Ala Moana Center)
Owner HART
Rolling stock AnsaldoBreda (Driverless Metro)
Technical
Line length 20 mi (32 km)
Track gauge 4 ft 8 1⁄2 in (1,435 mm) standard gauge
Electrification Third rail
Route map
Legend
Honolulu Rail Transit

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Legend
West Kapolei
 Kalaeloa Boulevard
 Kapolei Transit Center
 Kalaeloa
 Fort Barrette Road
 Kapolei Parkway
 East Kapolei
 UH-West Oahu
 Hoʻopili
 Fort Weaver Road
 Route continues above Farrington Highway
 West Loch
 Waipahu Transit Center
Maintenance facility
 Leeward Community College
Interstate H-1
 Route continues above Kamehameha Highway
 Pearl Highlands
 Interstate H-1
 Pearlridge Center
Airport/Salt Lake fork
Salt Lake alignment above Salt Lake Boulevard
Aloha Stadium
Arizona Memorial
Pearl Harbor Naval Base
Honolulu International Airport
Ala Lilikoʻi
Lagoon Drive
Interstate H-1
 Route continues above Dillingham Boulevard
 Middle Street Transit Center
 Kalihi Street
 Kapalama
 Iwilei
 Route above Nimitz Highway
 Chinatown
 Downtown
 Route continues above Halekauwila Street
 Civic Center
 Kakaʻako
 Ala Moana Center
 Convention Center
Waikiki/UH-Manoa fork
McCully
Kalaimoku Street
Date Street
Mōʻiliʻili
UH-Mānoa
Liliʻuokalani Avenue

: Station part of initial line : Station part of planned extension

The Honolulu Rail Transit Project, or Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project, is a rapid transit project that will provide high-capacity elevated urban rail service to the city and county of Honolulu on the island of Oahu in Hawaii. The system will have a light metro design, with elements of commuter rail incorporated into trains and suburban stations.

Overview

Plans for a mass transit line to connect Honolulu's urban center with outlying areas began in the 1960s,[2] but funding was not approved until 2005.[3] The controversy over the rail line was the dominant issue for local politics leading into the 2008 Honolulu elections,[4] and culminated in a city charter amendment which left the final decision to the citizens of Oahu.[5] The amendment passed with 53% of voters in favor,[6] and ground broke on project construction on February 22, 2011.[7][8]

The project, as planned, will construct an elevated rapid transit line from the eastern edge of Kapolei, near the University of Hawaii-West Oahu campus, to Ala Moana Center. The line will pass through communities along southern Oahu, via Honolulu International Airport and downtown Honolulu. The plan also includes extensions west through Kapolei, and a link through Salt Lake. In addition, there will be extensions east to the University of Hawaii-Manoa campus and Waikiki.[9] The line will use 128 ft (39 m) trains carrying about 390 passengers each, similar in weight to light rail systems elsewhere in the United States (such as the MAX in Portland, Oregon), as opposed to heavier, and thus more expensive, lines found on rapid transit systems like the subways and elevated systems of Chicago and New York City.[10] However, the stations will be standalone structures and will be substantially bigger than typical light rail stations. Physically, the Honolulu system will have a good deal in common with light rapid transit systems such as SkyTrain in Vancouver, British Columbia or the Copenhagen Metro, as well as the Docklands Light Railway in London.

The system will be the first metro system in the United States to feature platform gates.[11]

Previous projects

For more than 40 years, Honolulu politicians have attempted to construct a rail transit line. As early as 1966, then-mayor, Neal S. Blaisdell, suggested a rail line as a solution to alleviate traffic problems in Honolulu, stating: "Taken in the mass, the automobile is a noxious mechanism whose destiny in workaday urban use is to frustrate man and make dead certain that he approaches his daily occupation unhappy and inefficient." [2]

Frank Fasi was elected to office in 1968, and started planning studies for a rail project,[12] named Honolulu Area Rapid Transit (HART), in 1977.[13] After Fasi lost the 1980 reelection to Eileen Anderson, President Ronald Reagan cut off funding for upcoming mass transit projects, which led Anderson to cancel HART in 1981.[14][15][16] Fasi was reelected in 1984, and restarted the HART project two years later,[17] but the second effort was stopped in a 1992 vote by the Honolulu City Council against the necessary tax increase.[3][18]

Fasi resigned in 1994 to run for governor, with Jeremy Harris winning the special election to replace him. Harris unsuccessfully pursued a bus rapid transit project as an interim solution until he left office in 2004.[19] His successor, Mufi Hannemann, began the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project (HHCTCP), the island's fourth attempt to build a mass transit system operating in a dedicated right-of-way.

History

Former Honolulu mayor Mufi Hannemann

General Excise Tax increase

Shortly after winning the 2004 election, Hannemann announced that construction of a rail line was an administration priority.[20] The following May, the Hawaii State Legislature passed a bill to allow counties a one-half percent increase in the Hawaii General Excise Tax (GET), from 4% to 4.5%, to fund transportation projects. According to the bill, increased revenue would be delivered to counties implementing the raised tax to fund general public transportation infrastructure throughout Hawaii, and to pay for mass transit in the case of the City and County of Honolulu.[21][22] Money collected from the initial 4% GET would remain state revenue.

Governor Linda Lingle initially threatened to veto the bill, believing that money destined for county governments should be collected by the individual counties.[23][24] After compromising with legislative leaders and Mayor Hannemann, however, she allowed the bill to become law. On July 12, 2005, the bill was enacted as Act 247 of the Session Laws of Hawaii 2005, without the Governor's signature.[22][23][24][25] A month later, the Honolulu City Council authorized the one-half percent GET increase,[26] and Hannemann signed the measure into law on August 24.[27] Act 247 required Honolulu to use the funds only for the construction and operation of a mass transit system, and barred its use for public roads and other existing transit systems, such as TheBus. Since no other county authorized the excise tax increase before the deadline of December 31, 2005, the Hawaii GET remains at 4% for Hawaii's three other counties.[22][28] The increase went into effect on January 1, 2007, and is due to expire on December 31, 2022.[22]

The Legislature considered a bill in the 2009 legislative session that would have redirected income from the half-percent increase back to the state to offset a $1.8 billion projected shortfall in the following three fiscal years.[29][30][31][32] The bill was opposed by Mayor Hannemann and other city leaders who believed that redirecting the money would jeopardize federal funding for the project,[33] and was eventually dropped after U.S. Senator Daniel Inouye indicated to the Legislature that he shared the city's concerns.[34][35]

Studies

Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor survey marker in the sidewalk at the corner of Kapiolani Blvd and Keeaumoku Street in Honolulu, HI.

The City and County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services released the first formal study related to the HHCTCP on November 1, 2006, the Alternatives Analysis Report. The report compared the cost and benefits of a "fixed guideway system", along with three alternatives. The first expanded the existing bus system to match population growth. A second option called for a further expansion to the bus system, with improvements to existing roads. The third alternative proposed a two-lane flyover above the H-1 freeway between Pearl City and Honolulu International Airport, continuing over Nimitz Highway, and into downtown Honolulu. The report recommended construction of the fixed guideway, and is considered the city's official justification for building a rail line.[36][37]

A second planning document, the Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS), studied possible natural and social impacts of the construction and operation of the HHCTCP. The DEIS was completed and cleared for public release by the Federal Transit Administration (FTA) on October 29, 2008. After minor changes were made to comply with state law, the document was distributed via the city's official project website four days later. The DEIS indicated that impacts of the rail project would include land acquisition from private owners on the route, displacement of residents and businesses, aesthetic concerns related to the elevated guideway, and noise from passing trains.[38]

The city was criticized for timing the release only two days before the 2008 general election. City Councilmember Ann Kobayashi, running as a mayoral candidate against incumbent Hannemann, suggested that the city deliberately withheld key information to early voters who had already cast their ballots for the mayoral candidates, and a city charter amendment related to the project.[39][40] The anti-rail advocacy group Stop Rail Now criticized the report for not further discussing bus rapid transit and toll lanes, options studied earlier by the city in its Alternatives Analysis.[41][42]

The third and final official planning document, the Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), was approved and cleared for public release by the FTA on June 14, 2010. The FEIS addresses and incorporates public comments received regarding the DEIS.[43] The FTA subsequently declared the environmental review process complete in a record of decision issued on January 18, 2011.[44]

Impact on 2008 Honolulu elections

The importance of the Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Project in the 2008 mayoral election led one observer to describe the vote as a "referendum on rail transit".[4] Two challengers emerged as rivals to incumbent Mufi Hannemann: City Councilmember Ann Kobayashi and University of Hawaii professor Panos D. Prevedouros. Kobayashi supported a "rubber-tired" mass transit system, as opposed to the conventional steel-wheel-on-steel-rail system chosen by the Hannemann administration. Prevedouros, on the other hand, opposed any mass transit project, favoring construction of a reversible tollway over the H-1, similar to the Managed Lane option studied in the Alternatives Analysis, and reworking existing road systems to ease congestion.[45] No candidate won a majority of votes in the September 20 primary, forcing a runoff between Hannemann and Kobayashi;[46] Hannemann successfully retained his post with 58% of the vote in the November 4 general election.[47]

On April 22, 2008, the Stop Rail Now advocacy group announced their intent to file a petition with the city to place a question on the 2008 ballot to create an ordinance that read: "Honolulu mass transit shall not include trains or rail".[48] Stop Rail Now attempted to submit the petition with 49,041 signatures to City Clerk Denise De Costa on August 5, but was initially denied after De Costa claimed the city charter did not allow the petition to be submitted less than 180 days before a general election, as the wording of the petition called for a special election.[49][50] Stop Rail Now filed a lawsuit to force the city to accept the petition, and the courts ruled in Stop Rail Now's favor on August 14.[51] Stop Rail Now's petition ultimately failed after De Costa deemed 35,056 of the signatures valid on September 4, well short of the 44,525 required.[52]

In response to the possibility that Stop Rail Now's petition would fail, the City Council voted on August 21 to place a proposed amendment to the city charter on the ballot, asking voters to decide the fate of the project.[53] Mayor Hannemann signed the proposal the following day.[54] The City Council's proposed amendment was not intended to have a direct legal effect on the city's ability to continue the project, but was meant as a means for Oahu residents to express their opinions on its construction.[5] The charter amendment was approved with 53% of votes cast in favor and 47% against. The majority of voters in Leeward and Central Oahu, the areas expected to benefit from the project, generally voted in favor of the amendment, while the majority of those living outside the project's scope in Windward Oahu and East Honolulu voted against it.[6]

Burial issues

A likely problem that will arise during construction of the rail line in the downtown Honolulu area is that historic human remains will be uncovered. The Oahu Island Burial Council (part of the State Historic Preservation Division, within the State of Hawaii Department of Land and Natural Resources) refused to participate in signing a programmatic agreement on October 21, 2009, over concerns about likely issues regarding burial sites located along the line's proposed route over Halekauwila Street in Kakaʻako. Three construction projects in the area since 2002 have each encountered unforeseen human remains that led to delays, and archaeologist Thomas Dye has stated, "The council is absolutely right that you should expect to find burials on Halekauwila Street".[55]

The Burial Council's core contention is the city's decision to conduct an archaeological survey of the rail line's route in phases, meaning construction on a majority of the line will be complete by the time the survey in the Kakaʻako area is performed, which in turn increases the likelihood that any remains discovered will be moved instead of being allowed to remain in situ.[56] In response to the Burial Council's concerns, the city agreed to begin conducting an archaeological survey of the area in 2010, two years earlier than originally planned.[55] The state Department of Land and Natural Resources later signed the city's programmatic agreement on January 15, 2011, over the continuing concerns of the Burial Council.[57]

The city's decision to conduct the archaeological survey in phases subsequently led to a lawsuit filed on February 1, 2011, by the Native Hawaiian Legal Corporation on behalf of cultural practitioner Paulette Kaleikini. The suit, which names both the city and the State of Hawaii as defendants, contends that state law requires the full length of the rail line to have an archaeological survey conducted before any construction takes place, and seeks to void the environmental impact statement and all construction permits issued for the project.[58] Kaleikini's lawyers filed on February 18 a request for an injunction to stop work on the project until the case is resolved.[8] The suit was initially dismissed on March 23, 2011, after Circuit Court Judge Gary Chang ruled that state and federal laws allow the archaeological surveys to be conducted in phases.[59] Kaleikini's lawyers subsequently appealed to the Hawaii Supreme Court, which heard oral arguments in the case on May 24, 2012.[60] The court ruled on August 24, 2012, that it agreed with plaintiff Kaleikini that the archaeological survey needed to be completed before construction could take place, and that the State Historic Preservation Division did not comply with state law when it approved the project. The case has now been remanded to Circuit Court.[61] On December 27, 2012, the United States District Court for the District of Hawaii granted the plaintiffs' injunction, and ordered that all construction-related activities in segment 4 of the archaeological survey be halted until compliance with the Hawaii Supreme Court decision made earlier this year is met. This ruling does not affect construction activities in the first three segments, nor does it affect construction planning, design, or engineering in segment 4, which is the final segment to be built. The Phase 4 area encompasses the downtown area and its immediate environs, including Chinatown, Mother Waldron Park, and Beretania Street. Judge Tashima, the only sitting judge on the case, ruled on condition of the injunction that the city is required to file periodic status updates on their compliance with the judgment. The injunction will then terminate 30 days after defendants file a notice of final compliance.[62] City planners and rail representatives stated that archeological surveys will be completed early in 2013, and that this ruling would have no effect on construction in City Center. Both sides are expected to appeal portions of the ruling that they do not agree with.

Delays

Construction on the HHCTCP rail line was originally scheduled to begin in December 2009, but did not occur owing to delays in the in project review process, including delays in obtaining federal approval of the environmental impact statement.[63]

In January 2010, Governor Lingle publicly recommended that the city alter plans for the rail line after news reports on FTA documents where the federal agency raised issues over declining tax revenues in connection with a global economic recession,[64] and commissioned a study by the state to review the project's finances in March.[65] The state financial study, publicly released on December 2, 2010, indicated that the project would likely experience a $1.7 billion overrun above the $5.3 billion projected cost, and that collections from the General Excise Tax would be 30% below forecasts. Lingle's successor, Neil Abercrombie, publicly stated that the financial analysis would not affect his decision to approve or disapprove of the project, saying that the state's responsibility is limited to the environmental review process, and that decisions regarding the project's finances belong to the city and the FTA.[66] Governor Abercrombie subsequently approved the project's final environmental impact statement on December 16, 2010.[67] The Honolulu City Council held a hearing on January 12, 2011 about the state's financial review, but the hearing was not attended by any state officials, who had been invited to testify.[68]

Honolulu mayor Peter Carlisle speaking at the project's groundbreaking ceremony

On January 18, 2011, the FTA issued a "record of decision", indicating that the HHCTCP has met the requirements of its environmental review and that the city is allowed to begin construction work on the project.[44] The record of decision allows the city to begin negotiating with owners of land that will be purchased for the project, to begin relocating utility lines to make way for construction of the line and stations, and to purchase rolling stock for the rail line.[69][70] A ground-breaking ceremony was held on February 22, 2011 in Kapolei, at the site of the future East Kapolei station along Kualakai Parkway.[7][8]

Route

City and state politicians at the project's groundbreaking ceremony

The rail line will have twenty-one stations and run from Kapolei to Honolulu, passing through Waipahu, Pearl City, Waimalu, Aiea, and Halawa. From the eastern terminus at Ala Moana Shopping Center in Honolulu, the line is proposed to split into two future extensions to the University of Hawaii at Manoa campus and Waikiki. Originally, the line was to fork near Aloha Stadium into two routes, one passing Honolulu International Airport, and the other through Salt Lake, before reuniting at Middle Street in Kalihi. The city council initially decided to build the Salt Lake route before the airport route, the result of a compromise with City Councilmember Romy Cachola, whose constituents include Salt Lake residents.[71][72] After the city charter amendment on rail transit passed, the City Council reconsidered the decision, and decided to re-route the rail line to pass by Pearl Harbor and the airport, without a Salt Lake alignment.[73][74] The line will be served by 128 ft (39 m) long trains, each with a capacity of 390 passengers.[10] The trains will operate with up to twenty departures per hour.[75]

As of June 2013, the line is scheduled to open in two phases in 2017 and 2019:[76]

The rail line, as currently planned, will be built starting from suburban areas in Kapolei and Ewa, and progressing towards the urban center in Honolulu. There will be 112 columns from East Kapolei to Ewa.[77] This is because the first phase includes a baseyard for trains, and a planning decision by the city to delay the major infrastructure impacts associated with construction in the urban center to later phases of the project.[78] Future extensions are planned to eventually service the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, and Waikiki, as well as Kalaeloa.[79]

On October 21, 2009, the city announced Kiewit Pacific Co. had won the $483 million contract to build the first two stages of the line, bidding $90 million under the expected price. The stations will be tendered separately.[79][80]

Rolling stock for the line will initially include 80 cars in 40 two-car consists, built by a joint venture between AnsaldoBreda and Ansaldo STS named Ansaldo Honolulu. (AnsaldoBreda and Ansaldo STS previously collaborated on the construction and operation of vehicles for the Copenhagen Metro[81] and the Brescia Metro). Each car will be 64 ft (20 m) long, weigh 72,000 lb (33,000 kg), and have 36 seats with a listed total capacity of 195 people.[10] The cars will be powered by a third-rail electrification system.[82] The two competing bidders for the rail car contract, Bombardier Transportation and Sumitomo Corporation of America, filed protests over the award.[83] Both protests were rejected during the administrative process, but Bombardier sought judicial review of their bid protest.[84] The administrative decision against Bombardier's protest was affirmed by both the state Circuit Court and the Intermediate Court of Appeals.[85][86]

Progress

Popular culture

A portion of the rail line is destroyed in the 2014 version of Godzilla.[93]

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