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AR00077185 FTA Start-Up Package for Honolulu High-Capacity Transit Corridor Alternatives Analysis City and County of Honolulu
The City and County of Honolulu (City) is initiating an alternatives analysis (AA) and the preparation of a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) to identify and evaluate high-capacity transit service improvements within a corridor between Kapolei and the University of Hawaii at Manoa (UH Manoa). This document provides an analytical framework for the study by describing the transportation corridor, problems that will be addressed, measures that will be used to evaluate alternative ways to address the problems, and an initial set of study alternatives. Material contained in this document will be included as part of the "scoping process", enabling the general public and affected public agencies to comment on the problem statement, evaluation plan, and initial alternatives. This will then allow the study to develop the information needed to ultimately identify and evaluate major transit investments for improving travel mobility in the corridor.
A. The Study Corridor
As shown in Figure 1, the study corridor is narrow and linear. The densely populated study corridor is located within the Honolulu Urbanized Area (UZA). Based on the 2000 Census, the Honolulu UZA ranks 51st in population among the 71 UZAs in the United States with populations of 500,000 or more. However, of these UZAs with over 500,000 in population, only five have a greater population density than Honolulu.
The major geographic (topographic) features that define and shape the corridor include: the Pacific Ocean, Pearl Harbor and Honolulu Harbor to the south; the Koolau and Waianae mountain ranges to the north; and Punchbowl Crater adjacent to the Central Business District.
The major activity centers within the study corridor include:
• Aloha Stadium, • Honolulu Harbor, • Honolulu International Airport, • Honolulu's Central Business District, • Kapolei, • Leeward and Honolulu Community Colleges, • Naval Station Pearl Harbor, • Pearlridge and Ala Moana Centers, • University of Hawaii's Manoa and West Oahu Campuses, and • Waikiki.
In 2000, nearly 552,000 people lived within the corridor representing 56% of the island's households. Eighty percent (80%) of the island's total jobs are also located within the corridor. Major employment concentrations include Downtown and Kakaako, Waikiki, Honolulu International Airport, and Pearl Harbor.
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