Honolulu Rail - Driver's Eye View 

its not too known elsewhere except for here in hawai’i lol

Sorry it took me so long to post it! I filmed it one Saturday in Sep 2023, then left Hawaii in October, vacationed in Asia for 6 months, just moved to Colorado, rented a house, looked for a job....after all that time I'm finally settled in and found the folder with the recording!

Top be fair, there' likely very few rail fans in that part of the country due to the lack of trains...So it'll likely take years for that community to build up.

Believe me, America isn't that creative.

Stage 2 looks like a go for next year.

They're gonna push the line into the city itself which is great.

that comes next, it's not instantaneous, take place over decades to match population growth/movements The parking is easily repurposed - right now the stations are just park-n-rides.

@@bmolitor615 Exactly. Check out NoMa in Washington DC. The Infill Metro Red Line Station opened in 2004 and by 2016-2020 development had really cranked up,

They are. This rail is only a year old so they're still working on it.

They started building the rail in 2014. The starting point in Kapolei is still farmland today. 10 years and still no development

for skylines, the focus is on a regular service unimpeded by surface traffic and moderately speedy from end to end [aka actually not too many stops - like an express, yah] - then the intermediate locations feed into some of the stations by bus.

@PaulJefferi...: I think they will eventually add more stops and stations. I think this is a better way to get around here than buses which get tied up in traffic and are much slower.

The bus system is really comprehensive here, so short stops doesn't make much sense. This is supposed to be more of an "express" option.

@@yvessimon4847 I’ve been on the Dubai metro as well.

​@@ChillinDylanWhat time does the last train run?

Vancouver, Canada had our Sky-Train back in 1986, so Honolulu is 40 years behind the times.

@@martyn6792 So did London - Docklands Light Rail in the same year (1986).

lol believe me, it isn't worth that kind of effort. What you see in the video is pretty much it. Better you drive the H3 in a convertible.

3.50/ride. Capped at $7.50/day. All transfers done within a 2 hour period are free.

@@Spookieham I know, right? Very practical, nothing fancy. Maybe someday once it’s all operational they will dress it up a bit.

But if they dolled it up at the get-go, there'd have been just so much more screaming about $$$, you know it :) Dolling it up is a fun thing to do 10 or 20 years down the line once the municipalities that have grown up[ because the skyline exists!] have matured a bit. They do the whole pass a motion, form a sub-committee, run community-input open-houses, shortlist artists, and eventually each station is freshened up and is suddenly unique and gorgeous over the former bare bones...

The inside of the stations themselves have some neat art and designs. It's just the platforms that are kinda barebones.

Me neither

It was literally just built a few years ago.

well the railway was supposed to completed years ago(9) but it kept getting delayed. i'd say its still incomplete and useless if its not built all the way to waikiki or at least around the whole island.

No. No one who lives in Hawaii actually goes to Waikiki, it's for tourists only. The beach isn't very good, there are no waves, and it's covered with tourists. For now, it is planned to stop at Middle Street, and possibly, in the future go to Ala Moana Mall.

@@ChillinDylan That would be the point - to move masses of people without them being on the road.

There were plans for that in the beginning, but they pretty much gave up on it. The Skyline was intended to get tourists and university students off the road by connecting the airport with a lot of other locales. The original hub was going to be Ala Moana Center with a leg heading up to the University of Hawaii, but the city wasted tons of money through graft and various forms of political gamesmanship so they blew through the billions of dollars they had in the budget and cut out all of the useful stops. Probably the biggest issue with the rail though, even if it were finished, is that the entire design is intentionally user-unfriendly to deter homeless. The worst example is that they refused to build any public restrooms along the route because they didn't want to pay to keep them clean and free of vagrants.

@@thelastdwemer Thanks for your informative post. There didn't seem to be much information outside of the state and your post gives us a better understanding of whats going on.

@@TIMBOWERMAN Yes, driverless. Only workers I saw were at the stations and occasionally one on board, looking around.

They are projecting end of 2025. Civil Beat has a conference with them on August 30th, so new details may come up.

@@matthewgarcia1499 Obviously, I edited out the time spent sitting at stations.

@@ChillinDylan well it’s not obvious that u did but it’s all good

@@ChillinDylan I love how the clouds POP from A to B at every station :) thanks for cutting out those extra minutes

@@warrengibson7898 Boondoggle in the Boondocks.

enjoy your traffic on h-1 then

@@ryy4n_ Yeah....if the rail doesn't go ANYWHERE near our home/job/school.....we have to take H1 to get around. I lived in Kalihi Valley, like 5 miles away from the nearest station (stadium), and even when the newer line opens, it will be Middle Street, which is still far. And again, it doesn't go near anywhere I want to go, except possibly Pearl Ridge. I can take Likelike to H1 and be at the airport in 10 minutes.

Then leave Hawaii trump troll.

@@ChillinDylan no you cant when traffic exists lol, stop being so anti public transit 🙄

@@ryy4n_ lol I lived in Germany for 12 years when I was younger and rode my bike, the bus or the local train almost every day. I'm the biggest advocate of public transportation. Do you work for the rail?

Nah, Hawaii NEEDS public transportation.

more trains = less traffic on roads and faster trip times.