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Automated metro systems are commonplace around the world, and with the opening of the SkyLine system in Honolulu today, this technology (and platform gates) are finally now in the US! Let’s take a closer look.
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32 Comments
Could you please do the relatively new San Juan, Puerto Rico metro next?
I am a fellow train fan!
It does not matter Hawaii is still a state no matter what and this sub way is part of the United states
The speed of the rail at 35-50mph is spellbinding.
Why can't this be tap to pay, unlike NYC and Brussels metros. Way easier to use, and offers all the abilities of a card, using a card I already carry. If they're targeting tourists, being able to skip the machine is a great thing. Some people will still need tickets, but removing that barrier to entry and fooling with a machine makes it a clean experience, and I can't believe in 2023 they dont offer this.
NYC just introduced walk-through trains about 2 months ago starting on the No. 7 line.
No surprise it’s so expensive
Everything in Hawaii is expensive
FAIL !! Just call it how it is… America doesn't know how to build rail !! Every single project out there is a complete failure.
Such a shame for a world superpower.
Why are Canadians so fond of saying North America, usually to the exclusion of Mexico and Central America?
Isn't Honolulu in the Pacific?
Reece, your insight into that most dynamic transit region, the GTA, keeps me as one of your loyal followers here in faraway SoCal. But I gotta tell you that for the last week your use of the word "subway" in the title of this otherwise excellent video has been irritating me like an ingrown toenail. Before I retired from LACMTA it always bothered me that my coworkers talked in a way that fellow workers would understand but would be puzzling or even contrary to what the general public would understand. You have fallen into this trap. Yes, SkyLine is grade separated and driverless and runs off a third rail, but none of these attributes can overcome the plain fact, that anyone can see, that SkyLine is no Subway.
You said there are no escalators, what about elevators to provide ADA access?
Everyone Japanese visitor who would ride it to their final destination will be dead before it's possible. They've been talking about this since the 1980s.
Modern Yes. Automated Yes. Looks like what Singapore has. Having worked at the U.S. DOT, Federal funding requires that the system service Under Served communities. Those who need access to transportation for work. — but, like near Washington, DC, the damned developers built up next to at least 2 stations of WMATA and pushed out those in need of the transit.😡
how do you just call half a million people in one city "a town" xD
Obviously, Hawaii is as much a part of the USA as any other state. Only anti-Americans would think otherwise.
P.S. A "subway" runs underground at some point.
This was a giant waste of the Hawaii taxpayers money
cool video
this isn't a subway is an elevated rail….
Honolulu did what San Juan did with their Tren Urbano – figured that by building the part in the middle of nowhere first, pressure to build the high density phase 2 would insure more Metro was built overall. But San Juan ran out of money and the TU thus doesn't go anywhere particularly useful (No Airport, Mall, or tourist areas, just one suburb to downtown office buildings).
Why in the world didn’t they start development at the airport!? Smdh…
No american would say hawaii's infrastructure doesn't count casue it's not part of "the continent". What an insane thought process. Only non-americans would think that
Looks like someplace beat Montereal for the first automated metro system with platform screen doors in North America.
More like North America .
He's right. Hawaii is not even in North America. It is 3000 miles west in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.
Also, the title wouldn't be correct as it is not subterranean nor submarine, but it is a super way, as it is above, and suoer- as prefix means above as in supertitles and subtitles.
New Orleans needs this
I was there to ride it on Day 1! Got pictures and video and everything! 😁
Great video! Very informative, thanks for sharing!
Just an awful waste of what could have been a great LRT system but instead ended up a nearly-useless Montreal Olympic Stadium of a mess.
The problem is not the concept of a train. It is the incompetence of building the thing. Like you mentioned, the mind boggling cost to build such a bare bones system above ground indicates both criminality and incompetence. Let this be a lesson to avoid such projects unless you have honest competent people.
What an odd human. Odd face. Odd expressions. Good videos tho. The constant head turning makes me terribly uncomfortable lol.
Billions of dollars wasted, should have increased buses and routes~