Hōʻaeʻae station
Honolulu Rail Transit station
Hōʻaeʻae station (also known as West Loch station) is a Skyline metro station in Waipahu, Hawaiʻi. It opened on June 30, 2023 along with its temporary 21-space park and ride lot.
In Hawaiian, "hōʻaeʻae" means "to make soft or fine" and is the name of the ahupuaʻa in which it is located. The Hawaiian Station Name Working Group proposed Hawaiian names for the nine rail stations on the ʻEwa 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
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.
The public source identifies “Hōʻaeʻae station” as honolulu Rail Transit station. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hōʻaeʻae, station and Honolulu.
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Place names and jurisdictional language are key evidence: both can reveal earlier catalogue descriptions and overlooked record series. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 24, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q85767931. Authority coordinates are 21.378, -158.023. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023, 2017 and 2018.
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This entry incorporates text from “Hōʻaeʻae station” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.