Hawaii Highways Closed For Accidents, Infuriating Residents and Visitors

In Hawaii, and it appears to be additional than in other areas, the freeway can be abruptly shut for a variety of causes. Our feelings often go out to those people wounded. The annoyance is likened to traveling across the Pacific, wherever diversion factors are constrained. Driving isn’t usually carefree, as pictured earlier mentioned yesterday on Maui. Throughout all those instances, you could have no alternative but to flip off your motor and make new mates. Through a recent highway closure we knowledgeable in between Lihue and Poipu, men and women started out handing out frozen treats that had been melting.

All this comes on the heels of our article Friday about Driving In Hawaii 2023 | “The Worst Condition.”

Though on Oahu, there are usually different routes to escape traffic delays, which is not usually real on the neighboring islands. Now that I have reported this, right now may well be an situation on Oahu for these attempting to show up at the large-wave-driven “Eddie” at Waimea Bay on the north shore. Which we would love to have attended experienced we not been thoroughly fearful of obtaining there and again unscathed.

The freeway from West Maui to Kahului closed Saturday.

Yesterday a dump truck on Maui overturned on the Pali of the Honoapililani Highway that goes from West Maui in direction of Kahului. Crisis units arrived at the incident at roughly 9:30 AM on Saturday. Police have been ultimately ready to established up a shared just one-lane entry whilst the accident scene was cleared. That took just about six several hours to be completed.

Visitor Glenna was trapped in the incident website traffic. She described (excerpted): “We still left Kaanapali at 10:30 this morning on our way to Kihei. We are still not in Kihei – it’s 2pm. This is preposterous. We heard that a dump truck flipped over someplace ahead. Who knows. People are missing flights. Bought out of the auto (this is standstill site visitors) and chatted with someone who remaining three hrs in advance for their flight at 3pm and they will skip it now. Moreover, they’re jogging out of gas. Using this long to very clear an accident is not ok.”

Editor Jeff, not extended ago, also took the generate from Kaanapali to Kahului to capture a flight. He planned for the 27-mile travel to acquire a stable two hours (and he stopped for espresso and meals before using off). Effectively, completely wrong, it took nearly 3 hours, and he just about skipped his flight. There was no accident, just incredible website traffic. It was totally nerve-wracking.

The road to Waimea Canyon And Kokee Condition Park was closed Saturday as well.

Yesterday your editors had been heading to deal with an function in Kokee Point out Park. It was late in the day, and we had been shocked that there had been simply just no cars and trucks exiting the park. We figured out that a tree fell throughout the highway early in the day, which resulted in a prevalent power outage in the parks and the only highway in until about 4 PM. The occasion we attended was a pop-up supper at Kokee Lodge, commencing at 6 pm, that nearly acquired canceled.

Were being you caught in a single of these delays on Saturday?