Transportation

Hawaiʻi May Add A Test To Driver’s License Renewals As Traffic Deaths Climb City and County of Honolulu

Hawaiʻi May Add A Test To Driver’s License Renewals As Traffic Deaths Climb

Drivers would have to take written knowledge tests during their license renewals, something Hawaiʻi stopped requiring almost three decades ago.

Oʻahu Needs Sidewalks. Should The County Be Required To Build Them? Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Oʻahu Needs Sidewalks. Should The County Be Required To Build Them?

Two Honolulu charter amendment proposals this year aim to enshrine sidewalk construction as a core local government responsibility.

EV Use Has Skyrocketed In Hawaiʻi. Why Is It So Hard To Find A Charger? Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

EV Use Has Skyrocketed In Hawaiʻi. Why Is It So Hard To Find A Charger?

As federal incentives for electric vehicles are drying up, will the state still expand its fledgling charging network?

HART Approves $53 Million In Design Work To Continue Rail To Ala Moana Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

HART Approves $53 Million In Design Work To Continue Rail To Ala Moana

Extending rail from Kakaʻako to Ala Moana would cost another $1.6 billion, money the rail authority does not have. The board did not discuss how to pay for that.

Teens Who Sued Hawai‘i Say State’s Climate Plan For Aviation Doesn’t Fly Nathan Eagle/Civil Beat/2020

Teens Who Sued Hawai‘i Say State’s Climate Plan For Aviation Doesn’t Fly

Interisland flights are Hawaiʻi’s biggest transportation carbon producer, making up more than half of all emissions related to civilian travel in the state.

Stuck On A Honolulu Rail Platform? Let A Book Take You Somewhere Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2025

Stuck On A Honolulu Rail Platform? Let A Book Take You Somewhere

The city wants livelier rail stations. The library system wants more access to their books. Can a vending machine pilot project satisfy both goals?

How Many Crosswalks Have Been Removed In Honolulu? The City Isn’t Sure Natanya Freidheim/Civil Beat/2018

How Many Crosswalks Have Been Removed In Honolulu? The City Isn’t Sure

The city took out dozens of crosswalks more than six years ago, but city officials they haven’t tallied how many have been removed since then.

E-Bikes In Schools: Hawaiʻi Politicians Call For Restrictions Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2024

E-Bikes In Schools: Hawaiʻi Politicians Call For Restrictions

Efforts to implement stricter rules and more consistent standards have taken on urgency amid a sharp increase in traffic fatalities this year.

Why Honolulu Bus Fares May Be On The Rise Kevin Fujii/Civil Beat/2023

Why Honolulu Bus Fares May Be On The Rise

A monthly pass would go from $80 to $90 under the proposal in what would be the first increase in three years.

State Fund Aims To Get More Kids Walking To School. Will They Be Safer? Matthew Leonard/Civil Beat/2025

State Fund Aims To Get More Kids Walking To School. Will They Be Safer?

The funds won’t be released until early next year, but the transportation department is looking at ways to expedite processes so work can begin within four months of receipt.