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Traffic on Piilani Highway passes in front of the Kihei high school site in November where state officials want to build a roundabout. The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
A state Department of Transportation official said the roundabout project proposed for Kihei high school can be completed by June 2022, just in time for the school’s target opening for the 2022-23 school year.
Design for the roundabout is currently ongoing and expected to be completed in May with construction able to begin in June, said Ed Sniffen, the department’s deputy director for highways.
It will be built at the intersection of Kulanihakoi Street and the four-lane Piilani Highway and will be the first two-lane roundabout in the state, DOT officials confirmed. (A story published on Dec. 12 incorrectly described the size of proposed roundabout).
Jan 15, 2021
As our community continues the long wait for the high school in Kihei (mauka of the highway), at least we had assurance for almost a decade that when it does open, the keiki and everyone else walking or cycling to the school had safe passage via an under- or overpass of the Pi’ilani Highway.
Do you know why? A state Land Use Commission condition. What do you know about this statewide all-volunteer panel?
Kihei Community Association commences its 61st year of incorporation with our first membership meeting of this year, where we welcome the current chair of this commission, special guest Jonathan Likeke Scheuer, as well as Maui’s own Dick Mayer and Mark Hyde to discuss numerous aspects of the LUC and its effects on our area.
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Piilani Highway traffic crosses over Waipuilani Gulch on Dec. 3. Community leaders are calling for a simple pedestrian underpass to be built beneath the bridge to offer an alternate way of crossing the highway for high school students and other residents. â The Maui News / MATTHEW THAYER photo
The state of Hawaii’s first four-lane roundabout will be built at the Piilani Highway intersection that services the new Kihei high school in response to a long-running dispute over a safe crossing for future students.
“When that school is built it will open with a roundabout at that intersection,” said state Department of Transportation Deputy Director for Highways Ed Sniffen during a recent phone interview.
Stevens to speak at Rotary Zoom meeting
By Staff | Dec 11, 2020
LAHAINA Larry Stevens, a member of the Board of Directors of the Maui Nui Marine Resource Council, will make a presentation to the Zoom meeting of the Rotary Club of Lahaina Sunset at 5:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 16. His presentation will feature information about the work of the Maui Nui Marine Resource Council. Stevens is a veteran software industry executive who now makes Maui his home. In addition to serving on Maui Nui Marine Resource Council’s board as secretary, he serves on the board of the Hawaiian Islands Land Trust.