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Freeway project For Oahu residents with Sunday night plans for a Waikiki dinner, a Kahala Mall movie or a visit to friends in Manoa or Makiki, there's likely a detour ahead on the way home.
begins next phase
All H-1 westbound lanes,
Punchbowl to Waialae, will
close from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m.
starting tomorrowBy Mary Adamski
Star-BulletinAll westbound lanes of the H-1 freeway between the Waialae Avenue and Punchbowl Street on-ramps will be closed at 8 p.m. tomorrow as the state Department of Transportation takes its resurfacing project to the next phase.
The stretch of freeway will be closed from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m., Sundays through Thursdays, for about six weeks.
The work by contractor Kiewit Pacific is part of the $23.4 million rehabilitation of the oldest stretch of freeway on Oahu.
Motorists from East Honolulu will be required to exit at the Kapiolani Boulevard interchange.
Two of the main routes of freeway access from Waikiki will be affected. Kapahulu Avenue traffic will find the on-ramp from Old Waialae Road closed, and McCully Street traffic won't be able to enter H-1 from the Metcalf/Alexander Street access.
Motorists may reenter the westbound lanes at Lunalilo Street or Punchbowl Street.
The project will bring continuing overnight construction in a neighborhood that just endured six weeks of work on the eastbound lanes in the same area.
Resurfacing and lane striping of Koko Head-bound lanes between Punchbowl and Kapiolani interchange, as well as access ramps and frontage roads, were completed Aug. 10.
The corridor between Kahala and downtown Honolulu was built in the early 1950s and hasn't been upgraded in 15 years.
Some of the changes were required to bring it into compliance with federal safety standards and traffic codes, a Transportation Department announcement said.
Already completed are the upgrading of median light poles and resurfacing of some Kaimuki access ramps.
Scheduled to begin in October is the widening of the Punahou off-ramp from the eastbound freeway.
Information on highway construction and detours is available at 587-2345.