CityExpress! offers
free week on
extended route

Star-Bulletin staff

Oahu commuters can ride the newly extended CityExpress! bus route for free from Monday through Saturday next week.

It's the city's way of drawing riders to the Route A bus, which will run from University Avenue to Pearlridge beginning Monday. The route began last year running only from the University of Hawaii at Manoa to Middle Street.

The CityExpress! route has only 18 stops either way thus reducing the time for traversing the entire route by a third.

The buses will run at 10- to 20-minute intervals weekdays, 15- to 30-minute intervals weekends.

There are three stops at Pearlridge.

Traveling Diamond Head, the other stops are along Kamehameha Highway at Aloha Stadium, Arizona Memorial and Pearl Harbor Makalapa Gate; the Kalihi Transit Center on Middle Street; and along King Street at Gulick, Kalihi, Kokea and Liliha streets.

The other stops are along King Street at Maunakea, Alakea and Punchbowl streets; along Kapiolani Boulevard at South, Keeaumoku, Atkinson and Isenberg streets; and along University Avenue at King Street and Sinclair Circle.

Heading Ewa from Sinclair Circle, the stops are along University at King; along Kapiolani at Isenberg, Atkinson and Keeaumoku; on Alapai Street; and along Beretania at Punchbowl, Pali Highway and River Street.

The bus also stops along King Street at Liliha, Kokea, Kalihi and Gulick streets; at the Kalihi Transit Station on Middle; and along Kamehameha Highway at Makalapa Gate, Arizona Memorial, Aloha Stadium and Pearlridge.