The Honolulu rail project has added 93 jobs and is now supporting a total of 1,238 jobs this quarter, according to a press release from the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation, the quasi-city agency in charge of rail.

About 40 percent of these jobs have gone to non-Hawaii residents brought in from the mainland or other countries.

The job numbers remain well below early employment projections for the rail project. The project’s draft environmental impact statement pegged the average number of direct jobs, spanning the years 2010 — 2019, at 4,200.

The job numbers are still expected to peak at about 4,000 when the entire rail guideway and all 21 rail stations are under construction, according to the HART press release.

In the past, HART has attributed the slow job creation to the delays in construction brought on by legal challenges and has since sped up and condensed the construction schedule to try to keep the project on track to being completed in 2019.

You can read Civil Beat’s past coverage of HART’s job numbers here: Is Honolulu Rail Living Up to Its Promises of Job Creation?

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