This Blog’s First Headline: ‘Rail Transit Must Finally become a Reality for Honolulu,’ and 15 Years Later, Today It Does!

Honolulu Skyline System at its Launch

Click for 19-minute video of Skyline in operation.

Fifteen years is an eternity in Internet time, so it's remarkable that Yes2Rail's first post 15 years ago today had a website's URL link for HART -- the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation -- that still works!

Honolulu's Skyline elevated rail opens for public use this afternoon to deliver what was suggested in that first post -- a system "that will restore mobility to a population that has none in the traffic-choked 20 miles between west Oahu and downtown Honolulu."

Though the system's time line and costs have changed, I'm sticking with my forever prediction: Honolulu elevated rail will be an immediate success for those who choose to ride and thereby completely avoid traffic congestion on the H-1 and surface roads between Kapolei and town. 

That decades-old vision becomes a reality today.