Transportation officials for the City and County of Honolulu have announced that they will be working on making the Kaimuki neighborhood more bike friendly starting in late August or early September. In some areas designated bike lanes will be added while in others "sharrows", or shared lanes" will be painted along the street shoulder to allow bicyclists to share the road. Currently, only 1.6 percent of Honolulu's commuters use a bicycle to get to work and the city hopes that number will increase with initiatives such as this one. Under the 2012 bicycle master plan, the city will add an additional 310 miles of bikeways within the next 30 years at a cost of $68 million. For the current fiscal year, the city budgets approximately $2.4 million for bikeway-related projects.
Source: Honolulu Star Advertiser, 7-29-2014, www.staradvertiser.com
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