The North Shore’s Laniakea Beach — a longtime go-to for turtle-watching — is not a formal beach park, and has no parking lot to accommodate its steady flow of visitor traffic. Also, there’s no crosswalk, traffic light or any other significant traffic control measure in place along Kamehameha Highway, which edges the beach. All this adds up to a glaring public safety problem.

Kudos to City Councilwoman Heidi Tsuneyoshi for seeking an interim fix: reinstallation of barriers on the mauka side of the highway. A town hall meeting is being held tonight, 6:30 to 8 p.m., at Waialua Elementary School to discuss short- and long-term solutions.

Airport power outages very worrisome

Yes, there’s a lot of construction and movement happening at Honolulu’s Daniel K. Inouye International Airport — but whatever is causing power outages there, it needs to get troubleshot, pronto.

Wednesday morning’s outage at Terminal 1 — about seven minutes only, thankfully — came exactly a week after another problem at Terminals 1 and 2, causing power instability in lobby areas. Flight operations were not disrupted in either incident — again, thankfully. But that was not the case on June 12, when a power outage in Terminal 1 lasted about an hour, causing travel delays.