Lunalilo closure has some success
A 90-day closing of the offramp tries to clear a "choke point" in morning traffic
Rod Antone, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, August 10, 2004
H-1 test cuts commute time for some; others wary
Mike Leidemann, Honolulu Advertiser, August 10, 2004
I used to use that onramp every morning, leaving our place in Makiki to get to work near the airport. Getting shunted back off the freeway only to rejoin it again at Punchbowl seems like a hassle, but that whole onramp/offramp interchange has always been a major problem. I think this idea has legs. Now if they could only figure out what to do with that same ramp for afternoon rush hour... like the long-debated flip-flop of one-way streets Piikoi and Pensacola.
A 90-day closing of the offramp tries to clear a "choke point" in morning traffic
Rod Antone, Honolulu Star-Bulletin, August 10, 2004
Morning rush-hour traffic appeared to flow easier and with less congestion than usual after transportation officials closed the Lunalilo onramp to the freeway. They funneled motorists to the Vineyard offramp, where drivers can get on the freeway by taking a right on Punchbowl Street from Vineyard.
Mike Leidemann, Honolulu Advertiser, August 10, 2004
The first day of the state's trial program to ease congestion near an H-1 Freeway chokepoint went "even better than expected," state Transportation Director Rod Haraga said yesterday. Forcing westbound drivers to forgo merging onto H-1 from the Lunalilo on-ramp helped traffic flow smoother, officials said. "For the first day, it exceeded all our expectations," Haraga said. "We never saw the big backup that usually occurs."
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