NOVEMBER 2019 RAIL REPORT
This is a brief update on construction for the Honolulu rail project:
The rail stations on the west side are divided into “station groups” based on the construction contracts for those stations.
The 3 stations comprising the West Oahu Station Group being built by HART’s contractor NAN, Inc. is 95% complete. These are the Kualakai station near the Kroc Center, the Keoneae station at UHWO and the Honouliuli station in the D.R. Horton project. Major work remaining are the canopy installations, fare gates, and site work. Substantial completion is projected for January 2020.
The 3 Farrington Highway Stations Group built by Hawaiian Dredging is 95% complete, with canopies, faregates and site work to be done, and the 3 stations comprising the Kamehameha Highway Stations Group, also being built by NAN, Inc. are 82% completed, with canopies and site work remaining.
The interim opening with limited revenue passenger service for the first ten miles of the rail route is planned for the latter part of next year starting with service from Kualakai station in Kapolei to the Kalauao station at Pearlridge, then to the Halawa station at Aloha Stadium.
Repaving and resurfacing of Kamehameha Highway following rail construction is ongoing towards Salt Lake boulevard which is 84% completed. The Airport Guideway and Stations segment which runs from Aloha Stadium to Middle Street, and includes 4 stations is 57% complete. Shimmick Traylor Granite (STG) is the contractor building the airport segment.
HART is planning an accelerated schedule for the City Center segment which is from Middle Street to Ala Moana Center. On Dillingham Boulevard, work will be both day and night, with the goal of substantial completion in 24 months. Accelerating the work could reduce the duration of rail construction and its impacts through Kalihi by as much as 18 months.
During the Holidays, there will be no HART work related lane closures for the Thanksgiving weekend, November 28 th from 5am to December 1 st at 8pm and during the Christmas and New Year’s holidays from Saturday, December 21 st at 5am to Thursday, January 2 nd at 8:30am. HART will review the requests for variances regarding these restrictions and may issue permits on a case by case basis. For more information, please visit the HART website at www.honolulutransit.org, you can call the project hotline at 566-2299 or email a question to info@honolulutransit.org.
HART November 2019 update
