Department of Transportation

HONOLULU – The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) is finalizing repair plans for the section of Kamehameha Highway near Kaaawa that suffered damage due to high surf action on Saturday, Feb. 27, 2016. The repair work will begin Tuesday, March 1, 2016, and is expected to be complete within a week. To expedite repairs, crews ...
Read More Repair plans completed for damaged area of Kamehameha Highway near Kaaawa

HONOLULU — The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) announced today that a favorable court decision issued earlier permits HDOT to pursue virtually all of its claims against consulting firm Ciber, Inc. arising out of a failed project to upgrade the computer accounting systems in HDOT’s Highways Division. In its decision, dated February 15, 2016, the ...
Read More Court ruling permits HDOT to pursue fraud claims against Ciber, Inc. for botching software implementation project and submitting false invoices

HONOLULU – The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) formally announces plans to begin a contraflow lane on Farrington Highway in Nanakuli later this year. Governor David Ige directed HDOT to develop operational solutions to improve mobility around our state. Gov. Ige specifically requested that HDOT implement a contraflow on Farrington Highway to improve the quality ...
Read More Farrington Highway contraflow pilot project aims to bring traffic relief to Waianae Coast

HONOLULU – The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) is pleased to report the removal of a damaged dry dock vessel on Saturday, Feb. 20, 2016 which resulted in the clearing of Piers 40 and 41 in Honolulu Harbor where it was previously berthed. The dry dock named Kapilipono took on water and sunk in its ...
Read More Submerged dry dock successfully removed from Honolulu Harbor

HONOLULU —The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) is alerting motorists of parking restrictions on Kamehameha Highway on Oahu’s North Shore in anticipation of the Quiksilver in Memory of Eddie Aikau surf tournament. No parking will be allowed on either side of Kamehameha Highway from Iliohu Place to the Saints Peter & Paul Mission beginning Wednesday, ...
Read More Parking on Kamehameha Highway to be restricted near Waimea Bay for the Eddie Aikau Tournament

HONOLULU – The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) in coordination with the City & County of Honolulu Department of Emergency Management, Ocean Safety and the Honolulu Police Department has reopened Kamehameha Highway on Oahu’s North Shore that was closed due to high surf. Kamehameha was closed in both directions from Haleiwa to Turtle Bay from ...
Read More Kamehameha Highway on Oahu’s North Shore reopened following high surf event

HONOLULU – Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) in coordination with the City & County of Honolulu Department of Emergency Management, Ocean Safety and the Honolulu Police Department will be closing Kamehameha Highway in both directions from Haleiwa to Turtle Bay beginning at approximately 2:00 this afternoon due to wave action impacting the roadway. Road blocks ...
Read More Kamehameha Highway on Oahu’s North Shore to close due to high surf

UPDATE: The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) successfully completed its planned night work requiring a single lane closure on Kamehameha Highway across the Karsten Thot Bridge in Wahiawa. The overnight closures referenced in the news release below that were scheduled to continue until Mar. 11 are no longer necessary. Crews will continue to make progress ...
Read More Kamehameha Highway single lane closure at Karsten Thot Bridge in Wahiawa begins Sunday night, Feb. 21

HONOLULU – The Hawaii Department of Transportation (HDOT) advises Oahu motorists that the Likelike Highway will be closed in the Kaneohe-bound direction between Valley View Drive and the Wilson Tunnel from 7 p.m. on Saturday night, Feb. 20, through 7 a.m. on Sunday morning, Feb. 21, for routine tunnel cleaning and maintenance. Electronic message boards ...
Read More Likelike Highway Kaneohe-bound closed Saturday night, Feb. 20, for tunnel cleaning

HONOLULU – Last Saturday, Feb. 13 HDOT maintenance crews were working on scraping shoulders on Farrington Highway. Shoulder scraping is required to maintain the safety of the facility to ensure they are clear for highway usage and that the vegetation does not move into the shoulder and travel way. A schedule had been previously set ...
Read More No maintenance work scheduled on Farrington Highway in Nanakuli Feb. 20