Route information | ||||
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Maintained by HDOT | ||||
Length | 27.16 mi [1] (43.71 km) | |||
Existed | 1960–present | |||
History | Completed in 1986 | |||
NHS | Entire route | |||
Major junctions | ||||
West end | Route 93 in Kapolei | |||
East end | Route 72 in Honolulu | |||
Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Hawaii | |||
Counties | Honolulu | |||
Highway system | ||||
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Interstate H-1 (H-1) is the longest (27.16 miles = 43.71km) and busiest Interstate Highway in the US state of Hawaii. The highway is located on the island of Oʻahu. Despite the number, this is an east–west highway; the 'H'-series (for Hawaii) numbering reflects the order in which routes were funded and built. H-1 goes from Route 93 (Farrington Highway) in Kapolei to Route 72 (Kalanianaole Highway) in Kāhala. East of Middle Street in Honolulu (exit 19A), H-1 is also known as the Lunalilo Freeway, after the former Hawaiian king, and is sometimes signed as such at older signs in central Honolulu. West of Middle Street, H-1 is also known as the Queen Liliʻuokalani Freeway, after the former Hawaiian queen; this name is shown on some roadmaps. It is both the southernmost and westernmost signed Interstate Highway located in the US.
H-1 begins near the Campbell Industrial Park in the town of Kapolei. West of this point, Route 93 (Farrington Highway) continues toward Waianae. The freeway continues east, passing the community of Makakilo until reaching the junction with Route 750 (north to Kunia Camp) and Route 76 (south to ʻEwa Beach). [2]
H-1 then continues along the northern edge of Waipahu approximately three miles (4.8 km) until its junction with H-2. It then continues east through the towns of Pearl City and Aiea for approximately five miles (8.0 km) to the complex Halawa Interchange, where it meets H-3 and H-201. The highway then turns south for two miles (3.2 km), then east soon after the exits for Hickam Air Force Base and Pearl Harbor. At this point, the highway runs along a viaduct above Route 92 (Nimitz Highway), passing to the north of Daniel K. Inouye International Airport. [2]
Two miles (3.2 km) past the airport exit, three lanes exit the freeway at exit 18A to join Nimitz Highway toward Waikiki, while, half a mile (0.80 km) later, the remaining two lanes make a sharp turn south as H-1 reaches another major interchange with the east end of H-201. Access is provided by a left exit from H-1 east only. H-1 west does not have access to H-201 at this point.
From here, H-1 runs through the city of Honolulu along a series of underpasses and viaducts. A flyover interchange leading to Downtown Honolulu has a westbound exit and an eastbound entrance. H-1 ends in the Kāhala district of Honolulu near Kahala Mall, where Route 72 (Kalanianaole Highway) ends.
During morning commute hours on weekdays, an eastbound contraflow express lane is deployed from just east of exit 5 to exit 18A, where it connects to the beginning of the Nimitz Highway contraflow lane. The H-1 contraflow lane is often referred to as a "zipper lane" due to the use of a movable concrete barrier and a zipper machine. The H-1 and Nimitz Highway contraflow lanes are restricted to buses, motorcycles, and high-occupancy vehicles with two or more occupants while in operation.
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A set of Interstate Highways serving Oʻahu were authorized by the federal government in 1960, a year after Hawaii was admitted as a state. One of the corridors, connecting Barbers Point to Diamond Head, was designated as H-1 by the Bureau of Public Roads (now the Federal Highway Administration) on August 29, 1960. [4] [5] The portion of H-1 that runs through Downtown Honolulu had opened in 1953 as the Mauka Arterial and was incorporated into the new freeway. This section has been largely unchanged since its inception and its design suffers from having too many on/offramps, short distanced onramps, and onramps that enter the freeway almost immediately before an offramp (opposite of current design standards). The 'new' section of H-1 was, however, built to contemporary freeway standards.[ citation needed ]
Construction on the first new section of H-1 began in 1963, shortly after alignments were approved for most of the freeway. [6] The Lunalilo Freeway, already planned by the state government and funded with a 50-percent match from the federal government, was incorporated into plans for H-1 in 1965 following the rejection of five other proposed routings. [7] [8] The westernmost section of H-1 in Makakilo opened on September 29, 1966. [9] The Kapiolani Interchange, opened in October 1967, filled a gap between two sections of the Lunalilo Freeway spanning three miles (4.8 km) in Honolulu. [10] [11] Another gap in H-1 was filled in March 1969 with the opening of three miles (4.8 km) between Kunia Road (Route 76) and the Waiawa Interchange with H-2. [12]
The Hawaiian Interstate shields have gone through several changes. Early shields contained the hyphen as per the official designation (e.g., H-1); however, these shields have been updated with the hyphen removed (e.g., H1). As in other states across the contiguous US, early Interstate shields also included the writing of 'Hawaii' above the Interstate route number and below the 'Interstate' writing. [13] While the "Queen Liliʻuokalani" section of H-1 has signs designating it as such (one eastbound at exit 1, the other westbound after exit 19), there are no similar name signs for the Lunalilo Freeway portion (the remainder of the freeway). [14]
Location | Honolulu |
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Length | 6.5 mi (10.5 km) |
In the 1960s, a fourth freeway that would have been Interstate H-4 (H-4) was proposed for the city of Honolulu. The intent of H-4 was to provide relief to the congested H-1 through Downtown Honolulu. Had it been built, the 6.5-mile-long (10.5 km) route of H-4 would have started at exit 18 (H-1/Nimitz Highway interchange) and followed the Honolulu waterfront to the Kapiolani interchange (exit 25B). [15] The idea, however, was unpopular and the freeway was never built. [14]
The entire route is in Honolulu County.
Location | mi [16] | km | Exit | Destinations | Notes |
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Kapolei | 0.00 | 0.00 | Farrington Highway (Route 93 west) / Laaloa Street | Continuation beyond western terminus | |
1A | Kalaeloa Boulevard – Kalaeloa Airport, Barbers Point Harbor (Route 95), Campbell Industrial Park | Signed as exit 1 westbound | |||
1.12 | 1.80 | 1B | Wakea Street – Makakilo, Kapolei, Kalaeloa | No westbound entrance; signed as exit 1D westbound | |
1E | Farrington Highway (Route 93 west) – Wet'n'Wild Hawaii | Westbound exit only | |||
2.21 | 3.56 | 2 | Makakilo Drive – Kalaeloa Airport | No eastbound exit | |
3 | Kualakai Parkway (Route 8930 south) – Kapolei, Ewa, University of Hawaiʻi – West Oʻahu | Formerly North–South Road [17] | |||
Waipahu | 6.49 | 10.44 | 5 | Route 750 north / Route 76 south – Kunia, Waipahu, Ewa | Southern terminus of Route 750; northern terminus of Route 76; signed as exits 5A (south) and 5B (north) westbound |
8.20 | 13.20 | 7 | Waikele, Waipahu | ||
9.40 | 15.13 | 8A | Farrington Highway (Route 7101 west) – Waipahu | No westbound entrance; eastern terminus of Route 7101 | |
Kamehameha Highway (Route 99 east) – Pearl City | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | ||||
9.74 | 15.68 | 8B | H-2 north – Mililani, Wahiawa, North Shore | Eastbound signage; southern terminus of H-2; signed as exit 8A westbound | |
Farrington Highway (Route 7101 west) / Kamehameha Highway (Route 99 north) – Waipahu, Waipio | Westbound signage | ||||
8C | Kamehameha Highway (Route 99 north) – Waipio | No westbound entrance | |||
Waimalu | 11.62 | 18.70 | 10 | Waimalu, Pearlridge, Pearl City | |
Aiea | 14.20 | 22.85 | 13A | H-201 west – Aiea, Pearl Harbor Historic Sites, Pearlridge | No westbound entrance; western terminus of H-201 |
H-3 east to H-201 east – Kaneohe, Moanalua | Western terminus of H-3; signed as exit 13B westbound | ||||
Halawa | 14.61 | 23.51 | 13B | Halawa Heights, Stadium (H-201) | No westbound exit |
Honolulu | 16.06 | 25.85 | 15 | Nimitz Highway (Route 92 east) – Pearl Harbor Historic Sites | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance |
16.65 | 26.80 | 15A | Kamehameha Highway (Route 99 west) – Stadium, Pearl Harbor Historic Sites | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; eastern terminus of Route 99 | |
16.85 | 27.12 | 15B | Nimitz Highway (Route 92 west) – Joint Base Pearl Harbor–Hickam | Military access only; signed as exit 15 eastbound | |
17.77 | 28.60 | 16 | Airport | ||
19.12– 19.60 | 30.77– 31.54 | 18A | Nimitz Highway (Route 92) – Waikiki | Signed as exit 18 westbound | |
19.34 | 31.12 | 18B | Middle Street (Route 7415), Dillingham Boulevard | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |
20.36 | 32.77 | 19A | Middle Street (Route 7415) | Westbound exit only | |
19B | H-201 west – Fort Shafter, Aiea | Westbound left exit and eastbound left entrance; eastern terminus of H-201 | |||
20.56 | 33.09 | 20A | Likelike Highway (Route 63 north) – Bishop Museum | Southern terminus of Route 63 | |
20B | Houghtailing Street | Westbound exit only | |||
20.80 | 33.47 | Vineyard Boulevard (Route 98 east) – Chinatown | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance; western terminus of Route 98 | ||
21.35 | 34.36 | 20C | Palama Street | Westbound exit only | |
22.31 | 35.90 | 21A | School Street – Chinatown | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |
Pali Highway (Route 61) | Signed as exit 21B westbound | ||||
22.77 | 36.64 | 21B | Punchbowl Street | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |
22 | Vineyard Boulevard (Route 98 west) | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; eastern terminus of Route 98 | |||
23.10 | 37.18 | Kinau Street – Waikiki | Eastbound exit and entrance | ||
23 | Lunalilo Street | No eastbound exit | |||
24.06 | 38.72 | Punahou Street – Manoa, Waikiki | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | ||
25.07 | 40.35 | 24A | Bingham Street | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |
Wilder Avenue | Westbound exit only | ||||
25.30 | 40.72 | 24B | University Avenue – University of Hawaii at Manoa | ||
25.62 | 41.23 | 25A | King Street – Waikiki, Honolulu Zoo | ||
25B | Kapiolani Boulevard – Waikiki | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |||
26.10 | 42.00 | 6th Avenue – Kaimuki | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | ||
26.83 | 43.18 | 26A | Koko Head Avenue – Kaimuki | Eastbound exit and westbound entrance | |
27.53 | 44.31 | 26B | Waialae Avenue – Waialae, Kahala, Kaimuki | Signed as exit 26 westbound | |
28.16 | 45.32 | 27 | Kilauea Avenue – Waialae, Kahala | Westbound exit and eastbound entrance | |
Kalanianaole Highway (Route 72 east) / Waikui Street / Ainakoa Avenue | At-grade intersection; highway continues east as Route 72 | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi |
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