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A nearly 100-year-old bridge built over the Ala Wai Canal will undergo significant repairs over the coming year, the city says. Starting Monday, a $2.6 million project to repair the Kala kaua ...
The Ala Wai corridor is a high-injury corridor due to several factors : high pedestrian traffic among visitors and residents alike, plus a high volume of mixed traffic that includes cars, bikes ...
Kalākaua Avenue bridge over the Ala Wai Before the canal existed, Waikiki consisted of wetlands which were fed by streams running from the Makiki , Palolo , and Manoa valleys to the sea. In the early 1900s, Lucius Pinkham , then President of the Territorial Board of Health, proposed to construct a drainage canal to drain the wetlands, which he ...
Other projects that remain under construction or in design and planning phases include :—Ala Pono Bridge : In design, the new $60 million pedestrian and bicycle crossing of the Ala Wai Canal, in ...
The street passes through the business district, as well as the Ala Wai Canal and ends in McCully, just before the Interstate H-1 at South Beretania Street. It is the Kalākaua Avenue that is home to some of the most known hotels of Honolulu, such as The Royal Hawaiian Hotel, Hyatt Regency or Sheraton Waikīkī. Alongside this, there are a ...
Dillingham drained the wetlands of Waikīkī in the early 1920s and created the Ala Wai Canal, on whose banks the Hawaiʻi Convention Center was built. He helped suppress Japanese Hawaiian plantation workers' calls for better labor conditions during the Oahu Sugar Strike of 1920 , as chair of the Hawaii Emergency Labor Commission.
COURTESY STATE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL RESOURCES Debris from upstream has flowed into the ocean entrance of the Ala Wai Canal and its harbor. COURTESY STATE DEPARTMENT OF LAND AND NATURAL ...
Collapse of the pedestrian suspension bridge when more than 50 students and teachers of a school who were running in the area crossed it when the capacity of the bridge support was maximum of three people. Marcy Pedestrian Bridge Collapse: Marcy, New York: United States 11 October 2002: Pedestrian bridge under construction