Farrington Highway in Ewa between Kualakai Parkway (formerly North-South Road) and Old Fort Weaver Road Triangle will be closed 24 hours a day from Monday through March as a result of the resumption of construction on the city’s $5.26 billion rail project.
Motorists are advised to use either H-1 freeway to the north or surface roads such as Kapolei Parkway to the south.
A shuttle service will serve employees of Aloun Farms, which has its main entrance within the affected area. Business-related traffic will be allowed through.
Contractors for the Honolulu Authority for Rapid Transportation will be erecting concrete columns that will connect the tracks of the rail line that eventually will run from East Kapolei to Ala Moana.
Work is restarting after being halted more than a year ago due to a lawsuit. The City Council passed a bill on Wednesday giving permits to HART to resume construction.
Sections of Farrington Highway in Waipahu, an H-1/Moanalua freeway onramp eastbound in Aiea, and portions of Kamehameha Highway in the Halawa-Pearl Harbor area will also be affected by the rail project in the coming week.
Specifically:
>> Farrington Highway through Waipahu, from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday, will be subject to intermittent lane closures to allow for maintenance work. In the same area, from 7 p.m. to 6 a.m. Monday through Thursday, lanes in both directions of Farrington will be closed for utility location work specifically between Old Fort Weaver Road and Leoku Street, and between Mokuola and Kahualii streets. One lane in each direction of Farrington through Waipahu will be open at all times.
>> The inside lane of the entrance to the H-1/Moanalua freeways eastbound onramp from Kamehameha Highway just before Aloha Stadium will be closed for maintenance work from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Monday through Friday.
>> The left lane of Kamehameha Highway eastbound near H-1 freeway and Makai Frontage Road, and the two left lanes of Kamehameha eastbound between Arizona Street and Radford Drive, will be closed from 8:30 a.m. to
3 p.m. Monday through Friday. Also, the right lane of Kamehameha Highway westbound near Halawa Drive will be closed from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday through Friday.
For updates on traffic routes, go to honolulutransit.org or call the HARThotline at 566-2299.
