LIHU‘E — The state Department of Transportation will conduct emergency paving requiring a single lane closure on Kuhio Highway between the Hanalei Bridge and Hanalei town in the vicinity of mile marker 1.6 on Saturday evening, May 7, through Sunday morning, May 8, from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m., weather permitting.
LIHU‘E — The state Department of Transportation will conduct emergency paving requiring a single lane closure on Kuhio Highway between the Hanalei Bridge and Hanalei town in the vicinity of mile marker 1.6 on Saturday evening, May 7, through Sunday morning, May 8, from 6 p.m. to 5 a.m., weather permitting.
Travel in both directions will be maintained through alternating traffic control.
The emergency paving is necessary to reduce loads on the highway because of Hanalei River erosion impacting the roadway. The emergency work will add up to 10 feet of pavement on the mauka side of Kuhio Highway to route traffic away from the river.
The permanent mitigation for the river erosion will be a shoulder-stabilization project. The DOT has been working for several months on design and permitting for this project. When the shoulder-stabilization work is complete, Kuhio Highway at the project site will be returned to its original alignment, and the temporary paving will be removed.
