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Old Posted Mar 31, 2023, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by ardecila View Post
You have to build the train yard in Phase I…. With scarce land on a small island, there’s very limited choices for where to put the yard.

Experience in other US cities shows that airport train stations are used more heavily by airport workers than by tourists. So this Phase I should still have a useful ridership.
In other US cities, rail is often via some weird people mover.
Look at a good example of rail connection like YVR to downtown Vancouver if you want to see useful ridership from tourists and workers. I know Vancouver doesn't have a highway through downtown, but still... Honolulu's highway doesn't go downtown as well. It skirts high density areas. It's an ideal city for transit... but two problems:
1) Island mindset
2) No good examples nearby
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