Hālaulani station (also known as Leeward Community College station) is a

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in Pearl City, Hawaiʻi, serving the

Leeward Community College Leeward Community College is a public community college in Pearl City, Hawaii. It is one of 10 campuses of the University of Hawaii system and is accredited by the Accrediting Commission for Community and Junior Colleges. Leeward's open admiss ...

campus. The station is located alongside Ala ʻIke Street and can be accessed from a building on the college campus, with passengers using a tunnel to travel under Ala ʻIke Street and the eastbound track. It is the only station on the system not built on elevated tracks. It opened on June 30, 2023. In Hawaiian, "hālaulani" means "heavenly ''hālau'', chief’s house, name of a star" and is the name of the ʻili (

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division) in which it is located. The Hawaiian Station Name Working Group proposed Hawaiian names for the nine rail stations on the

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end of the rail system (stations west of and including Aloha Stadium) in November 2017, and HART adopted the proposed names on February 22, 2018.

Service

Station layout

Hours and frequency

Skyline trains run every 10 minutes. Service operates from 5 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekdays and from 8 a.m. to 7 p.m. on weekends and holidays.

Station information

When all 19 stations are open in 2031, Hālaulani is projected to see 1,450 boardings per day, reflecting its relatively physically isolated location at a community college with decreasing enrollment and sparsely-populated surroundings, along with the lack of a public-access

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or bus transit center. The 1,200-spot park and ride at Leeward Community College is for students, staff, and faculty only. The station is the only at-grade component of the Skyline rail network and is the only station accessed primarily via a tunnel. The Skyline Rail Operations Center is located immediately east of the station.

Surrounding area

College Gardens, a 119-unit townhome complex, is adjacent to Leeward Community College and the station. Single-family homes also exist in the area. The

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has announced tentative plans to build a "college-oriented neighborhood" of an additional 820 homes in the area. North of the station is a Hawaiian Electric substation and a busy highway interchange, the meeting point of the

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and H-2, described by the ''Star-Advertiser'' in June 2023 as "a twisted mess of roads."

References

External links

Hālaulani station – Honolulu Department of Transportation Services

Hālaulani station – Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation (HART)
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