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Honolulu transit agency focuses on airport station
Talk about labor intensive, look at that airport.
20,000 employes for 215,000 passengers.
What’s the employe to psgr ratio? Is it, very roughly, 100 for every 1000 psgrs?
Commuter trains with nearly 1000 SOB’s ( that’s “Souls On Board,” Smart A. Ho’…) have stations with no employes assigned.
This article talks about convenient access to parking garages and buses, but, how far is it thru the parking garages to the airport? Convenience would be to have the station at the air terminal, as in some places.
Via skybridge, it’s a 3-minute walk from the parking garage to the terminals…just watch out for any homeless and/or panhandlers!
According to the airports’s own web site, it has 550 employees, and serves about 20 million travelers per year which is about 55,000 per day. It took me less than 5 minutes to check this out.
Honolulu is following in the “train” of Atlanta, Chicago, Miami, Oakland, San Francisco and numerous other cities where you can easily make the transition from plane to train and vice versa. The passenger’s convenience is suddenly an important part of newer designs.