Un-frickin'-believable. The city is about to turn my commute back into a Manhattan-style nightmare, just as it was when I lived in Makiki -- all to benefit a bunch of fundies I don't want here, anyway!
http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2004/Aug/17/ln/ln20a.htmlEngineers hope emergency repairs to a sewer line on Kapi'olani Boulevard will be finished by mid-October, before the scheduled opening of a nearby Wal-Mart store and the start of the holiday shopping season, officials said yesterday.
"We're trying to get everything done in 60 days to beat the rush," city Environmental Services Director Frank Doyle said.
Starting today, the city will close the two center lanes of Kapi'olani Boulevard between Atkinson Drive and Kaheka Street for the repair work. That will leave two lanes of traffic open in either direction on the busy commercial thoroughfare....Looks to me like the "emergency" was that they needed to hook Sprawl-Mart up to the lines, and found out they couldn't handle it. And since it's an "emergency", guess who pays for it? Hint: Not Sprawl-Mart.
"There's going to be some disruption, of course, but we're trying to keep it to a minimum," Doyle said.With that dry tone of understatement, Doyle would be perfect as Bush*'s press secretary: "There's going to be some loss of jobs, of course, but..."
When they just repaved the section of Kapi'olani closer to me, traffic was backed up for ten minutes
at eight o'clock at night :scared:
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