Nightly Pali Highway closures begin Sunday

Pali Highway is scheduled for nightly lane closures in the Honolulu-bound direction beginning 8 p.m. Sunday, which will continue through the week until 5 a.m. each day until Friday morning for an improvement project, according to state transportation officials.

Next week’s lane closures are as follows:

>> Honolulu-bound: All lanes closed between Kamehameha Highway and Waokanaka Street. Motorists may use Likelike Highway, the H-3 freeway or Kalanianaole Highway as alternate routes.

>> Kailua-bound: Left lane closed between Waokanaka Street and the Pali Tunnels.

>> Intermittent two-lane closures between Waokanaka Street and Nuuanu Pali Drive.

Crews will be performing median work, drainage improvements and re-striping. No crosswalks or sidewalks will be closed.

Electronic message boards will be posted, and special-duty police officers will be on-site to assist with traffic control. Emergency vehicles, first responders and TheBus will be notified of the roadwork and allowed through the closures.

The Sunday night-through-Friday morning closures will occur weekly for about a year, with estimated completion in March 2019.

The Pali Highway improvement project includes the installation of LED light fixtures from Vineyard Boulevard to Castle Junction and resurfacing from Waoka­naka Street to Castle Junction, including the parallel Waokanaka Street and the Pali Highway / Waokanaka Street intersection.

Lane closure information associated with the project is updated weekly on the HDOT website under road closures. Construction updates, schedules and maps are also available at palihighway.org.