PRINCEVILLE — North Shore’s rush hour turned into a good-natured parking lot on Tuesday evening on either side of the Kalihiwai Bridge between Kilauea and Princeville. State workers closed the bridge between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., and were expected
PRINCEVILLE — North Shore’s rush hour turned into a good-natured parking lot on Tuesday evening on either side of the Kalihiwai Bridge between Kilauea and Princeville.
State workers closed the bridge between 5 p.m. and 7 p.m., and were expected to close the bridge during the same hours today for tree trimming and tree removal work in the wake of last month’s storms.
“Well, I guess I’ll be late for dinner,” Francisco Salas, a painter from Kapa‘a, said. Unable to cross the bridge, he waited with as many as 50 other motorists in stalled traffic backed up at least half a mile.
“I guess we’ll just have to go to a bar and drink,” visitor Leslie Simpson of Portland, Ore., said. Tyler Williams of Flagstaff, Ariz., said he was glad he didn’t “have to make a flight.”
“I had no idea, or I would have avoided it,” said Moku Crain of Kilauea.
