Feds to contribute $5.7 million for new Kinau Street offramp
Advertiser Staff
The state Department of Transportation will get $5.7 million to help fund a new Kina'u Street off-ramp on the H-1 Freeway near Lusitania Street, Hawai'i Sens. Daniel Inouye and Daniel Akaka announced today.
The new off-ramp is intended to provide motorists more direct access to Lusitania Street in the direction of The Queen's Medical Center.
The project has been awarded to a contractor and is in the final permitting process.
�Oahu has some of the most congested roadways in America and given the geographic restrictions of an island county, anything we can do to bring relief to Honolulu�s motorists while creating work for our construction industry is well worth the effort,� said Sen. Inouye in a release issued yesterday.
Said Akaka in the same release: �Thousands of O'ahu residents use the Kina'u off-ramp every day to get into town to commute to work or school, to see a movie or show, or to visit Ala Moana Beach Park. These federal funds will support jobs to modernize the off-ramp and fight congestion on the H-1 Freeway."