Oahu observations

[kurumi]

We spent a week in Oahu recently, in Waikiki and Kailua. Some roadgeek observations along the way:

Leaving the airport on H-1: hello Clearview. Most signage seems to have it by now.

H-201 is pretty well marked except from H-1 eastbound, which still refers to the route as HI 78 until the ramp to H-3 splits off.

HI 8930 is now marked on an H-1 BGS. It was convenient (in a minivan with 6 passengers) not to have to detour to grab a pic. That's now the highest signed route I have a pic of, dethroning HI 7310 (very short reign) which earlier dethroned KY 3225.

Entertaining "follow us" directions over the phone, heading back to Kailua on H-3: "So we'll get off on the next exit, which will be route 65. Uh... oh wait, I guess they're calling it Route 630. Sorry about that: Route 630. And, uh... OK, this sign says Route 65. Anyway, we're exiting." If two route numbers are close to a power of 10 between them, chances are they're the same road :-)

Paging Oscar Voss: On the H-1 westbound ramp at Kapiolani Avenue (http://goo.gl/maps/bw2S8) there's a little ghost ramp stub. Wondering what it's for, especially since the eastern end of the short-lived H-4 proposal (http://www.hawaiihighways.com/oahu.htm) would have terminated there.

[Alps]

especially since the eastern end of the short-lived H-4 proposal would have terminated there.

I think you answered that.

[oscar]

Paging Oscar Voss: On the H-1 westbound ramp at Kapiolani Avenue (http://goo.gl/maps/bw2S8) there's a little ghost ramp stub. Wondering what it's for, especially since the eastern end of the short-lived H-4 proposal (http://www.hawaiihighways.com/oahu.htm) would have terminated there.

Hawaii DOT for some time before the H-4 proposal was born, and even a little while after the proposal died, had plans for a freeway upgrade of some kind for HI 92.  Some of the HI 92 plans called for a connection to H-1 at the Kapiolani Interchange.  So was probably the HI 92 plans, rather than the H-4 plans, that prompted construction of the ghost ramp stub.

[kurumi]

One more thing: http://goo.gl/maps/lvwrF

On HI 72, east of where H-1 ends, the left lane eastbound is contraflow for westbound traffic in the mornings. Many of the left turn lanes eastbound are coned off as inaccessible. At West Hind Drive, however, eastbound drivers can still make that turn, by cutting across westbound traffic -- sort of like part of a continuous-flow intersection.