Kauai Seeks To Fix Traffic Nightmare After 50 Years

Traffic on Kauai is the worst it has ever been. Let us know your ideas to improve the situation. A bypass road around Lihue is being considered.

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40 thoughts on “Kauai Seeks To Fix Traffic Nightmare After 50 Years”

  1. In the short term and until this inland bipass road becomes a reality, (and who wouldn’t welcome this ??) I would like to see traffic controllers on point duty during this daily ‘primetime’ crawl…

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  2. Limiting the number of tourist is not the answer. Kauai has no industry, except for the military and coffee. Sugar cane has gone, so Kauai relies on tourists for income
    Restrict this trade and how many restaurants will close, how many hotels. How many stores, how many jobs.

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  3. I’m a 16 year Wailua resident and I fail to understand how this bypass will effect the “crawl” in Kapaa? Usually, thank goodness, there is a break in traffic between the Wailua bridge and Hanamaulu Lihue bound turn to Walmart. The bottleneck is from the Wailua bridge to Safeway in Wailua. We have a new lane to open one of these months. Things do move slowly here and I’m sure people anywhere know road work always takes time, no different here.

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  4. How about a wider one lane road in each direction with a striped center lane for emergency vehicles. It would also help with traffic flow around any accidents.

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    1. Hawaii wants a right of way width for even a 3 lane road to be a minimum of 120’ and my quick review of the Road is between 75’and 125’. This will be most difficult part of upgrading unless someone can convince every owner along the road to give up strips of their land to make way for expanded roadways.

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  5. Having experienced the “Kapaa Crawl” when I visited Kauai last year, I think the bypass should have 2 lanes in each direction. Two lanes in each direction will make it easier for emergency vehicles to pass, and for possible evacuations. Aloha!

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  6. For decades we have needed belt roads, and spoken up. The canefield roads are there. I feel it is time to move on from “examining,thinking, exploring” these ideas. Plan the belt roads, fund them and build them.

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  7. Have the highway engineers do any studies (concept) quickly
    and have 3 to 4 lanes, dedicated left & right turn lanes where needed. More lanes when the crews are there is better & safer than having to add lanes in the future. Mahalo

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