HONOLULU — The City and County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services announced several changes to TheBus services that will begin on Sunday, June 2.
The department noted in a press release that it continually monitors TheBus, evaluating its system to “address changes in service demand, productivity and resource allocation.”
The changes taking effect on Sunday include some routes that are modified, some that will be discontinued and one “new” route.
Route IL (Halawa-Hawaii Kai) will be re-routed to serve Bougainville and Radford Drive. The segment of Salt Lake Boulevard and Bougainville Drive and Radford Drive will be discontinued. This means that Route 1L will no longer serve the following stops: Bus Stop #2964 (Salt Lake Boulevard/Bougainville Drive), this will be served by Route 32; Bus Stop #4704 (Salt Lake Boulevard/Namur Road) and Bus Stop #4705 (Salt Lake Boulevard/Maluna Street. The latter two stops will be discontinued.
Route 11 (Makalapa-Halawa-Aiea Heights-Honolulu) will be discontinued. Alternate routes include: Route 551 (Aiea Heights-Aloha Stadium), which operates one-way mauka-bound on Kaamilo Street and one-way makai-bound on Aiea Heights Drive between Kaamilo Street and Moanalua Road; and Route 552 (Halawa Heights-Aloha Stadium), which operates one-way mauka-bound on Aliipoe Drive and one-way makai-bound on Halawa Heights Road between Aliipoe Drive and Ulune Street. Service frequency for both routes will be increased 30 minutes. For service to and from Honolulu, riders should transfer at Aloha Stadium to Routes A (City Express Pearlridge-UH Manoa), IL (Halawa-Hawaii Kai Limited Stop) or 20 (Waikiki-Airport-Aloha Stadium). Discontinued service areas include Kaamilo Street makai-bound between Moanalua Road and Aiea Heights Drive; Aiea Heights Drive mauka-bound between Maonalua Road and Kaamilo Street; Aliipoe Drive makai-bound between Ulune Steet and Halawa Heights Road; and Halawa Heights Road mauka-bound between Ulune Street and Aliipoe Drive. There will be no direct service between Aiea Hights/Halawa Heights and Downtown.
The existing Route 43 (Waipahu-Honolulu-Alapai) will discontinue service to Leolua Street to/from Honolulu between Waiawa Road and the Alapai Transit Center. Also, Route 432 (East-West Waipahu) will be discontinued and replaced with a “new” Route 43 (Waipahu-Waiawa), which will operate between the Hoaeae West Loch Skyline Station and Waiawa Road. Service hours for this route is extended to weekdays, Saturdays and holidays: 4:30 a.m.- 2 a.m. the next day; and Sundays: 5 a.m.-1:30 a.m. the next day. The service frequencies are every 20 minutes on weekdays and 30 minutes on weekends and holidays.
For Route 46 (Kapolei Commons-UH - West Oahu), several early morning trips will be discontinued because of low ridership. These include the four trips in the 4 a.m. hour, going from Kapolei Commons to UH - West Oahu and two trips in the 4 a.m. hour, going from UH West Oahu to Kapolei Commons.
Service to Elliott Street and Kuntz Avenue on Route 303 (Hickam-Airport-Kalihi Transit Center) will be discontinued because of the closure of the Kuntz Gate by Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam.
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