Highways News

Following the opening of the Lāhāina Bypass on Aug. 15, 2023, the Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) began installing dust screens around Lāhainā Town. The dust screens will reduce the spread of potentially hazardous materials across the roadways. This measure is being taken to protect highway users along Honoapiʻilani Highway (Route 30) and the Lāhāina ...
Read More HDOT installing dust screens around Lāhainā Town

HONOLULU – The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) notifies the public that nighttime work will begin on the Pali Highway from Vineyard Boulevard to the Wylie Street Interchange on Sunday, Aug. 20, 2023 Aug. 13, 2023. The start date has been delayed due to equipment availability. Paving operations will occur nightly, from Sunday nights through ...
Read More Revised: Night work begins on the Pali Highway Sunday, Aug. 20

HONOLULU– The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) is issuing the following update on the Maipalaoa Bridge project. Work will resume in the area in August 2023 after previous construction delays. Phase 3, which began in April 2023, was recently stopped due to the discovery of a cable line not previously known to the contractor. For ...
Read More Update on Maipalaoa Bridge project on Farrington Highway

HONOLULU – The Hawai’i Department of Transportation (HDOT) notifies the public that Aolele Street will be closed in both directions between the Post Office and Nimitz Highway on Monday, Aug. 14 and Tuesday, Aug. 15, from 5 p.m. to 4 a.m., for paving work. Roadwork details are as follows. During roadwork hours, motorists are advised ...
Read More Nighttime closure of Aolele Street scheduled on Aug. 14 and 15, for paving work

Motorist hit and killed while attending to his broken-down car on H-1 Freeway Ben and Dolores Lum had been married for more than 60 years. They were killed on the H-1 Freeway last week Thursday in what has been a deadly start to August. The Lums leave behind three sons, three grandchildren, and one great-grandchild. “It’s ...
Read More Deadly start to August on Hawai‘i roads

HONOLULU – The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) notifies motorists of an upcoming emergency closure on Kalihi Street (Route 63) to repair guardrails that were damaged due to a recent motor vehicle crash. This will be a left lane closure in the Honolulu-bound direction on the Kalihi Street off-ramp to the H-1 Freeway, eastbound, on ...
Read More Emergency night closure on Kalihi Street, Thursday, Aug. 10

HONOLULU – The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) notifies the public that nighttime work will begin on the Pali Highway from Vineyard Boulevard to the Wylie Street Interchange on Sunday, Aug. 13, 2023. Paving operations will occur nightly, from Sunday nights through Friday mornings, from 7 p.m. to 5 a.m. Motorists can expect one to ...
Read More Night work begins on the Pali Highway Sunday, Aug. 13

August 2 was a tragic day on Hawaii roads. Three people were killed in a head-on collision in Lāhainā, Maui, and a bicyclist was hit and killed in Waimānalo, Oahu. The deaths mark 51 lives lost on Hawai‘i roads so far this year, which constitutes a significant reduction from the 72 deaths we saw this ...
Read More Hawai‘i Department of Transportation urges drivers to be cautious after a deadly day across the state

KALĀHEO – The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) is notifying Kauaʻi motorists of upcoming roadwork on Kaumualiʻi Highway (Route 50) beginning the week of Monday, Aug. 7 for tree trimming. Roadwork will require a lane shift and intermittent full closures of Kaumualiʻi Highway, in the vicinity of Kōloa Road and Kuli Road on Monday, Aug. ...
Read More Tree trimming work continues on Kaumualiʻi Highway in Kalāheo, Monday, Aug. 7

HONOLULU – The Hawaiʻi Department of Transportation (HDOT) notifies motorists of weekend lane closures on the H-1 Freeway westbound, from Exit 16, the Airport Exit, to the Kahuapā‘ani underpass, from Friday night, August 11,  from 8 p.m continuously through Monday, August 14, 2:30 a.m., for rehabilitation work. 2 right lanes westbound closed on Friday, August ...
Read More Weekend Lane Closures on the H-1 Westbound from the Airport Exit to Salt Lake