Improvements to Rice Street in Lihu’e, from Haleko Road to Kapule Highway and including widening, repaving, landscaping, moving utilities and more, is scheduled to start Monday, July 30. The work, with Goodfellow Brothers, Inc. as general contractor, is expected to
Improvements to Rice Street in Lihu’e, from Haleko Road to Kapule Highway and including widening, repaving, landscaping, moving utilities and more, is scheduled to start Monday, July 30.
The work, with Goodfellow Brothers, Inc. as general contractor, is expected to last nearly 15 months, and include day and night construction.
The first phase of the reconstruction is the Kaua’i Museum side of Rice Street, which will require one-lane traffic in each direction and prohibition of on-street parking, explained Myles Mizokami, project manager for Goodfellow.
The first phase is expected to take eight months. If the contractor can obtain a noise variance permit to allow night work, the work will take six months. If the variance is approved, tentative normal work hours will be 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., and 9 p.m. to 5:30 a.m.
A community informational meeting on the noise variance application is this Tuesday, July 24, at 6 p.m. at the Lihu’e Kaua’i War Memorial Convention Hall lobby.
Goodfellow representatives and others have distributed informational materials to businesses and residences all along Rice Street.
For more information, or to offer suggestions about how the work might better proceed, please call Mizokami, 632-2088.
