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Move the zoo inside of Diamond Head.

Too much, though not all, of it makes sense. Which means it’s doubtful it will ever happen in Hawaii.

This needs to extend to the west also, at least to Nanakuli and Ko Olina on the way! Get the tourist destinations there to help pay for it! H1 is a nightmare where it ends near Ko Olina! There’s an existing rail line it could run along.

Most importantly, I think it can easily go further west out to the koolina resorts. They can easily build it ground level on the old rail road tracks out there. We have the space to do it, and it should be pretty easy and straightforward to do. But sadly, extending rail in any direction probably won't happen in any of our lifetimes. It's sad knowing that these projects can get done quickly and on budget in North America. Vancouver continues to expand their skytrain all the time and do it quickly and cost effectively. Vancouver was able to build an extension of their rail called the "Canada line" which started construction in 2004 and was finished in 2009, they had about 15 miles of track and it cost them under 2 billion CAD to build. This would be like HART being able to complete our skyline project for 3-4 billion USD. This just shows how incompetence and leadership from politicians, unions, contractors, etc. can really screw over a project.

It was supposed to help with traffic. It has destroyed traffic for years and still does. This needs to be shut down.

A wast of money since nobody uses it in the first place

This shit is a waste of tax payers money.

it would be cool if the city moved the zoo inside diamond head crater.

Music became louder could not understand speaker.

For some reason there was a band playing awful music and drowning out whatever you said. I would fire your producer.

I love this!! Thank you for making this. Do more!

I think it should start at Ko Olina from Disney for the tourists, go past the Airport and end near the Kahala mall. This way locals are not stuck in traffic on H-1.

It can't even get past kalihi.

$10 billion for 10 years project? Heck even Asian countries like Japan or China could do for less money for a faster build time! Total incompetence! At least it would've been nice if it started in Kapolei all the way to Waikiki or Ala Moana at least!!

Of course, this will never happen.

So 20+ more years and 5x more than has already been spent? Sounds like the bargain of the millennium.😅

This guy is racist about the Hawaiian culture and call them nimbe’s and demo one school to turn into a station?? so wrong , especially making this go into Hawaii Kai the rail is over budget already and there still going to be people be stuck on the rail if something goes wrong again they can’t even fix the roads

I wouldn't expand Skyline to Hawaii Kai. I would do Lightrail between Middle Street and Hawaii Kai

The music gets a bit loud at 2:54

Logical, indeed. With $30bil spent so far, this should already be up and running. The corrupt salivate over endless budget extensions while Honolulu becomes LA. 😡 🚗 🚌 🛻 🚙 🚎

This is never going to happen nor should it. The Skyline (which we just call “rail”) as it stands now won’t even serve the whole of the urban core. Extending it through the urban core into affluent and less dense Kahala and Hawaii Kai makes no sense given the astronomical costs it would face going through that area and low ridership.

Would be a good way to waste a few more billion dollars

They need it to go to wahiawa and mililani

I love finding more transit channels lets go

I think we’re missing the big picture. Shouldn’t rail go to the moon? It would cheaper and faster than launching rockets. Honolulu tax payers have rail that’s only over budget by 300%+ with a shorten rail line to cut costs and was projected to finished years many ago (the entire project). We don’t even have the 2nd third section running. Any extensions are only being promoted by greedy vested people like construction there unions, architects, companies that do environmental studies, etc… God forbid a real audit is ever done it, showing millions of dollars missing and everyone involved shrugging there shoulders and no repercussions.

Just one question, why are we not building the train in the urban centers underground?

Should I mention the Tokyo to Hokkaido bullet train with a route of about 300 miles, some of it underwater, cost less than $5B to build. Labor & building materials in Japan is not cheap. $10B for less than 20 miles of rail on Oahu is stupid bad. Where did the money go? Incompetence or corruption, either way we are throwing money away that we critically need now.

Over 10 billion dollars into this money pit. Throwing good money after bad. Why? We have greater needs. The road maintenance on Oahu is really, really bad. We have a serious homeless & drug problems. WTF?

It would "look like" ANOTHER financial SCANDAL and WASTE.

Should've just had it plan to loop the whole island.

It would look like $100B

They should be figuring out how to dismantle it… every time I look at it is got less than 10 people riding it. Most of the time it’s empty

You should make a aulani station and Kapolei commons station

I sincerely hope this continues from Kapolei Station west to Ko Olina and on to at least Nanakuli. The old railroad right of way at ground level would be a cheaper option along Roosevelt and on west. Certainly hope it gets to near Ala Moana soon to gain riders. Plus, hope the NIMBY people can be ignored. They will eventually like it!

Great video! Can't wait until you release videos for your ideas on the other extensions to Kalaeloa and Salt Lake. Hopefully after HART completes the other two financed segments to Middle Street and Kakaako for DTS to operate, they can get funding for the Ala Moana, UH Manoa, Waikiki, Kalaeloa, and Salt Lake extensions that were a part of the original rail route. Other future extensions could go to Ewa Beach and Mililani ( unless the Pearl Highlands Station parking structure and freeway ramps end up being built after all).

1 trillion dollars. Not bad

Having the train from airport and Waikiki would have had more revenue to pay for the other section.

NO ONE RIDES this! Why extend it?! To keep rail EXECUTIVES EMPLOYED?!

Planet Transit for dictator! (because that's the endrun around NIMBY) really like this series, but feels kind of sad that it won't actually happen. your music blasts over your voiceover starting around 11 mins. It made sense when talking about the zoo and noise, but seems like there was content missed towards the end

turn up your mike

If I jumped off the rail and got my balls stuck in the track rails would the momentum make me slide or would they just snap off?

Pearl harbor was an inside job

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Great job! You should do extension videos for westward into at least Ko Olina, as well as north up to Wahiawa.

Right now, with almost every transit project, the main obstacle is land use. As the rail reaches higher density zones, its potential will continue to grow. As hopefully land around the west stations are fully developed, it really does have the potential to be a highly productive service. As viaducts are proposed in dense urban environments, I just hope they don’t receive massive pushback from surroundings and are able to expedite construction. Honestly the over 500 million dollars per mile for elevated light metro is a hefty price tag that other countries pay way less for, but hopefully this can be used as a template of a successful project with the mistakes to learn from in the future to bring down costs. Imagine with the same budget, if twice the amount of track could have been laid, it could turn the whole island into an urban paradise.

While the construction would be rough for residents and businesses much like from Waipahu to Kalihi, having this Skyline extension remain elevated into Waikiki will keep travel times consistent.

IT WOULD BE WHAT BANKRUPED HAWAII.