A decades-long desire among many on Oahu to see the city’s more than $10-billion Skyline extend to the campus of the University of Hawaii at Manoa underlies new Honolulu City Council legislation.

Bill 60, which the Council recently adopted on the first of three readings, would authorize the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation to conduct planning and preliminary engineering for the rail line to possibly branch for another 3.2 miles beyond its current terminus in Kakaako, to a spot near UH’s 2500 Campus Road address.

That planning work includes “any studies, evaluations, surveys and assessments, and the preparation of any required environmental impact statements and other reports, provided that any such extension adheres to the locally preferred alternative” — rail’s previously pla

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