UH football looking shaky already

The University of Hawaii’s football season is more than three weeks away, but the groans already can be heard. Several players have been arrested for drunken driving, more than $200,000 that was spent on a fictitious Stevie Wonder concert has disappeared from the UH athletic department coffers, and the department’s director and the arena manager are on paid administrative leave.

Before making its debut in the Mountain West Conference, new coach Norm Chow will guide his Warriors to Southern Cal, the nation’s pre-season sixth-ranked team. Things can only get better.

Real test of skinny traffic lanes to come

The restriping of the H-1 between Punahou Street and the Pali Highway, adding a lane on both sides of the freeway, would seem to be an efficient use of the taxpayers’ $200,000, judging by the anecdotal evidence so far. Lots of people have noted easier flowing traffic.

But hold your horses: It’s way too soon to write the review. University of Hawaii resumes session Aug. 20, and that will be the real test of how much this project helps commuters.

So judgment awaits that fateful Monday — or some morning when a hobbled car in the skinny freeway shoulder lane gums things up again.