To help alleviate the traffic congestion during the afternoon rush-hour, the State of Hawai'i Department of Transportation begins works on June 7 to widen the H-1 Freeway Ewa-bound to six lanes all the way to the Pearl City off-ramp.

With the island population shifting to Central and Leeward Oahu, approximately 226,000 vehicles use this stretch of H-1 each day, creating a major bottleneck in the afternoon that stretches back to Kalihi. By the year 2022, the number of vehicles using that stretch of H-1 is projected to increase to approximately
284,000 vehicles.

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