He said rail costs include security, energy, elevator and escalator maintenance, fare collection, software and hardware, station and grounds maintenance, oversight compliance, consultant support, parts and other services as well as city staff. Actual revenue service will follow turnover by a few weeks."Īs it will take over rail service, Morton said DTS will pay about $52 million for Hitachi operations and maintenance and roughly $96.7 million in all, when all related costs are allocated. "Currently, HART is scheduling this date as of May 29, 2023, but that is an estimate of the schedule at this time. "The actual date is dependent upon HART finalizing its work and getting all appropriate clearances from state regulators, " Morton told the Honolulu Star-Advertiser via email. Roger Morton, director of DTS, said his department will take over the West segment of the new line upon the start of revenue service. The full build-out of the 18.75-mile rail line is scheduled to be completed by 2031. The planned opening for the first segment of the nearly $10 billion, 19-station project is this summer aboard Hitachi-built, four-car driverless trains. Among other things, the 100-page plan identifies DTS as the final responsible party of the rail system, which is still under construction by the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation.Ĭovering DTS' oversight into the operations and maintenance of the rapid transit system, the rail safety plan states that the city transportation department is "committed to providing safe, reliable, efficient and resilient transportation services." The plan also outlines the rail line's three segments : the West segment from East Kapolei to Aloha Stadium, which includes the first nine stations the Airport segment extending the rail line to Middle Street and adding four stations and the City Center segment, terminating at Halekauwila Street in Kakaako and adding six stations. 4-The Honolulu Department of Transportation Services is gearing up to take over the coming rail line this year-handling ridership, fares and bolstering the system's security.Īs required by federal law, DTS on March 8 submitted a rail safety plan to the Honolulu City Council. Grabauskas says all of the AIS work is on track to be completed ahead of schedule and expects rail construction in west Oahu to resume later this year.Apr. HART says it is working with the state and Burial Council to determine the next course of action. “And we were re-assured by the rail CEO Dan Grabauskas that any and all iwi finds can remain in place,” she says. Wong-Kalu says The Oahu Island Burial Council will advocate that the iwi found Sunday be preserved in place. “We could run a rail line on Beretania street, which Judge Tashima has talked about, that’s one option, our favorite is bus rapid transit, that would have no impact on native Hawaiian graves,” he says. Slater says this will mean added time and money for the rail project, and wants HART to re-consider its alternatives. “Not withstanding todays finds, I’m not too sure what will happen in terms of any extra survey trenches that could be done,” Wong-Kalu says. Sunday’s iwi find was at one of the the last two dig sites. Two-hundred thirty-two trenches have already been dug in the city center alone, but the State Historic Preservation Division asked that an additional 18 trenches be made. “That whole area on either side of Halekauwila street, Pohukaina to Queen Street is rife with native Hawaiian graves,” says rail critic Cliff Slater.Ī lawsuit has halted the rail project since August for an Archeological Inventory Survey to be done, which is necessary before construction can continue. “The evidence shows that most likely this would be pre-Western contact,” Wong-Kalu says. “It was an infant, not sure what the age would be, but again a young child,” says Hinaleimoana Wong-Kalu of the Oahu Island Burial Council.Īs soon as the find was made, Rail Authority officials and cultural monitors arrived at the site to address this latest discovery. Rail trenching work Sunday morning along Punchbowl near the downtown Federal Building turned up what the state has confirmed as a burial of human remains. This latest find is close to where other human remains have been recently discovered as part of rail work, now that work has been put on hold. This discovery was made during the last remaining trenching work to be done through the downtown corridor. Reported by: Brianne Randle - KHON2 News (1/13/13):Īnother human burial was found along Honolulu’s rail route Sunday morning.
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