Traffic

Rail is Oahu's future

We need to keep Oahu moving. Traffic has us snagged in gridlock and has taken a toll on our quality of life. The status quo is simply unacceptable.

H-1 and H-2 freeway lights to be fixed by February

The questions just keep coming in. Remember, if you have a traffic-related quandary, send it my way and I’ll see if I can find an answer for you. Question: What is the state doing about darkened stretches of the freeways?

City to install 34 security cameras for APEC meeting

The city will spend about $1.5 million to install video cameras in key parts of Oahu to help bolster security for visiting dignitaries who will be here for the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperative conference in November.

Deadlines for replacing traffic signs to be eliminated

It is a sign of the times: The Obama administration is planning to yield to strapped states and local governments who urged them to slow or be prepared to stop federal safety requirements that they replace thousands of road signs with bigger, brighter, more legible signs by 2018, arguing it would be the wrong way to make them to spend their limited money.

Officials identify mac nut driver killed in crash

Hawaii County police identified today the mac nut van driver killed in a one-vehicle crash Monday as Reginald N. Iwasaki, 67, of Hilo.

Traffic accidents kill sailor and visitor

Honolulu vehicular homicide investigators are looking for one vehicle -- and possibly others -- that hit and killed a 21-year-old Navy sailor walking on the H-1 freeway and then fled the scene early yesterday morning.

Use school bus service to help relieve traffic

We have been driving school buses for 60 years — 30 years each — and for the most part we enjoy our jobs and enjoy your children when they ride our buses.