Honolulu Mayor Kirk Caldwell is scheduled to present a new five year plan to fix and repave all of the city roads that are in need of repair across the island of Oahu. In his planned conference, Caldwell announce that his administration will repave 290 lane-miles of road in 2013 and another 310 lane-miles in 2014 and 2015. There are more than 3,000 road segments that have been identified and are slated for repaving over the next five years. However the Department Facility Maintenance and the Department of Design and Construction, which jointly handles road maintenance and repair for Honolulu, note that the cost to slurry-seal (temporary fix) a lane-mile of road is about $50,000 and to completely repave a lane-mile of road is about $250,000.
Mayor Caldwell had made fixing potholes and damaged roads one of his major campaign promises in the last election. A recent survey of Hawaii roads noted that only 57 percent of Oahu’s city roads were in good or adequate condition, while 16 percent were in degraded condition and 28 percent were in unsatisfactory condition, the worst category. State transportation officials would be required to fix state-operated roads like the three freeways, Kamehameha High Way, Farrington Highway, Likelike Highway, Kalanianole Highway and the Pali Highway.
Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser, 2-25-2013, www.staradvertiser.com
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Global Executive Realty, LLC
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