Click here for the announcement of an important meeting to determine State Highway projects planning for the long term future.  This is your opportunity to let the Department of Transportation know that project like those listed below are a priority for South Kohala: Saddle Road to Queen Ka’ahumanu HWY extension Kawaihae Road Bypass Waiaka Bridge [...]

At the Kawaihae Local Resource Council (KLRC) meeting on Sunday, February 5, from 2:00 to 4:00 p.m., Sal Panem, Hawaii Island District Engineer with the Department of Transportation, Highways Division, will update the community on the Kawaihae Harbor Bypass project as well as pedestrian safety concerns and parking along the roadway near the business district. [...]

Reconstruction of a curb ramp along Mamālahoa Highway in Waimea begins Monday, October 24.  Estimated completion is Friday, October 28. The twenty-four hour one- lane closure affects eastbound travel from Pukalani intersection to 50-feet beyond North Hawai‘i Community Hospital. The hospital entrance will remain open, and a pedestrian pathway provided around the work site. Ace [...]

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Wednesday, September 14 between the hours of 8:30 am to 3:30 pm one lane on Lindsey Bridge will be striped.  Please expect alternate lane closures.  Since this is a small section, the job could be completed earlier.

Two of the four lanes on Lindsey Bridge will close Wednesday and Thursday, September 7 & 8, between the hours of 8:30 A.M. to 3:30 p.m. for resurfacing of 37-feet x 44-feet of the bridge Off–duty police officers will direct traffic one lane in each direction on the remaining two lanes.

  On May 18, Longs Drug received Final Plan Approval for a store to be constructed on Kawaihae Road, between Hale Ola Pono and Parker Square. Due to an oversight, the Planning Department did not forward the plan approval application information  to the Waimea Community Association’s Planning and Design Review Committee prior to its issuance of [...]

A major year-long, $1.6 million construction project to install two offsite water transmission mains that will connect the new million-gallon reservoir on Kawaihae Road to the planned Department of Hawaiian Home Lands’ Lalamilo subdivision will be discussed at the Waimea Community Association Town Meeting at 5:15 p.m., Thurs., Aug. 4, 2011 at Waimea School cafeteria. [...]

A contractor will install approx. 1,082 ft. of 16-inch, and 46 ft. of 8-inch water lines along Kawaihae Road; and approx. 1,061 ft. of 16-inch, 739 ft. of 12-inch, and 29 ft. of 8-inch water lines on South Kohala Distribution Road. Transmission mains will provide water from the new 1.0 million gallon water reservoir (currently [...]

Here are a couple of details regarding the Lindsey Road Bridge repairs: Schedule: mid August to mid September 2011. Hours of work/road closures: 8:30 am to 3:30 pm, weekdays The $465,000 contract was awarded to Global Specialty Contractors Inc. The Federal Highway Administration is financing 80% of the cost and the County of Hawai‘i will pay [...]