City to restrict parking in Lanikai over holiday weekend
STAR-ADVERTISER / DEC. 2014
Kaelepulu Drive near Lanikai in Kailua. Parking will again be restricted on all streets and shoulders in Lanikai this Easter weekend from Good Friday through Easter Sunday.
Parking will again be restricted on all streets and shoulders in Lanikai this Easter weekend from Good Friday through Easter Sunday.
Lanikai will be designated as a “special enforcement district,” meaning absolutely no parking will be permitted on the shoulders of public roads and streets in Lanikai between the hours of 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. on Friday, Saturday and Sunday. Police will enforce the parking restrictions by ticketing and/or towing violators as necessary.
Those wishing to access Lanikai beach and/or the Lanikai Pillboxes Trail over the three-day Easter weekend between 10 a.m. and 3 p.m. may walk, bike, take TheBus Route 70 Lanikai Shuttle, or get dropped off in Lanikai. No one may park on the public roads and streets in Lanikai during the prohibited hours, including Lanikai residents. Early morning visitors to Lanikai and area residents are cautioned to remove their cars from public streets by 10 a.m. on the above dates.
The parking restrictions began as a city project over the Presidents’ Day weekend.
15 responses to “City to restrict parking in Lanikai over holiday weekend”
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Reasonable.
Very unattractive, crowded, polluted place.
40 years ago, it was paradise. Probably no better example of the State’s foolhardy tourism promotion than Lanikai. No public facilities, no public parking, yet it’s promoted as a world-class destination. 20 years ago Lanikai elementary school was in danger of being closed because of a lack of kids within the district. Even worse today, with more than half of the single family homes in Lanikai absentee owned or operating as vacation rentals, legal or not. If you advertise it, they will come. And they did. Now the City is indirectly telling them to stay away. You get what you ask for. The cat is out of this bag, and running straight to City Hall.
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All the cars in the picture are already parked illegally on the (unimproved) sidewalk.Police should ticket this mess and similar violators all over the island all the time..
Really? This would be an endless job for the police while far more important crimes go unworked.
What HPD could do is install license plate scanners on traffic enforcement cars. Drive around the island, scan and record all illegally parked cars. Then back at HPD, a lower paid staffer could mail out the tickets.
Money, money, money.
There are a lot of cars parked on sidewalks in many, many neighborhoods. The problem is that they pose a hazard for drivers coming out of their driveways as they often cannot see oncoming cars. Why a lot of people do know is that parking on sidewalks is illegal. Oftentimes its your neighbor that is doing that. All it takes is a phone call to the non-emergency line of the police department to solve the problem. A ticket can be quite costly and most offenders will avoid parking in the same spot knowing that another infraction can be even MORE costly. But with parking being at a premium in many neighborhoods where many families live in the same home it becomes a problem. But many neighborhoods allow it as it is a necessity and so no one complains. In my case the offender had a spot in his own driveway. So someone complained. Unfortunately I got blamed for someone else’s whistle blowing and this neighbor now not only does not park at the spot but now is giving me the eye for it. Funny thing is, he parks on the other side of my driveway thinking that that side is okay but that is the side that backs my view out of the driveway, not the one he got ticketed for. Go figure.
Isn’t unimproved sidewalk just dirt? Why is it illegal?
The City should adopt a permit system for Lanikai residents to authorize parking two per address, for those living on streets mauka of Aalapapa. This prohibition should be in place at all times. This will keep the Lanikai Canoe Club paddlers off Mokulua and the side streets and on the community park grounds or walking in for practice. It’d be great if they took the Mokulua Islands off all the tourism adds.
The power of the upper crust, 1%ers if you may, manipulating city signage work crew, The Bus re routing, the city police and contract towing to do their bidding. Their target, Public Enemy #1, The Public. 300 plus tickets during the last shutdown. Cut Lanikai playground in half,build a 2 story 100 public parking garage. Someone needs to sue the City of Anderson.
NO one but residents should be allowed to park there ever. Have shuttle buses like Waikiki that come from a parking lot where they can park. I love it there but I rarely go because of the craziness.
Just wait until 3 PM, and then park there.
Wouldn’t it be safer for the residents if parking was illegal 24/7?
must be nice, having your own private area, keeping the public out…I wish I could get parking banned on my street too!!
Boo hoo, boo hoo.