After San Jose, California, started mounting cameras on street sweepers, city staff confirmed the system correctly identified potholes 97% of the time. Now they're expanding the effort to parking enforcement vehicles.
Hawaii has given away 1,000 dashboard cameras as they try to reverse a recent spike in traffic fatalities. The cameras will use AI to automate inspections of guardrails, road signs and pavement markings, instantly discerning between minor problems and emergencies that warrant sending a maintenance crew.
Hawaii transportation officials are well aware of the risks that can stem from broken guardrails. Last year, the state reached a $3.9 million settlement with the family of a driver who was killed in 2020 after slamming into a guardrail that had been damaged in a crash 18 months earlier but never repaired.
Texas officials have been using StreetVision and various other AI tools to address safety concerns. The approach was particularly helpful recently when they scanned 250,000 lane miles (402,000 kilometers) to identify old street signs long overdue for replacement.
Cars were backed up for hours, and miles, on Tuesday in Honolulu as residents responded to alerts by jumping in their cars.
If, instead, they had walked 20 minutes inland, I shit you not, they would have been far higher elevation than any tidal wave could reach. Yeah, mountain islands, are like that.
The first widespread tsunami warning blared out from the state’s Emergency Management Agency at 2:44 p.m. to every cellphone in Hawaiʻi, urging people to leave coastal areas, and move to higher ground or inland immediately. It said nothing about heading to tall buildings.
Asked where police officers were stationed to direct traffic and how many were deployed, Honolulu Police Department spokesperson Alina Lee referred questions to the city and state transportation agencies. Nouchi, from the city, and spokesperson Russell Pang, from the state, said their departments don’t have that information.
And every year that goes by is a step closer to eligibility for a lifetime of retirement benefits.
Whether Kaaa-Swain, is guilty of falsifying his expenses or not, a Civil Beat review found the county has now paid him at least $300,000 and counting while he’s been out — about 25 times the amount he is suspected of stealing.
few hundred Hawaiʻi employees on extended periods of paid leave during misconduct investigations. Employees in agencies ranging from the Hawaiʻi Department of Education to the Department of Health have taken protracted absences from work pending investigations.
Union employees are protected from at-will firings, so investigations must validate misconduct allegations before disciplinary action is taken. However, government officials say there is a lack of qualified staff to investigate claims of wrongdoing, and some cases pose difficulties due to complexity or witness availability.
After enduring years of delays and cost overruns ― rail leaders are trying several tactics to save money and meet deadlines.
They are ending the use of precast concrete individual guideway segments installed by massive and expensive overhead gantries in favor of an old-school solution, just like highway bridges, with concrete girders and a deck laid down between columns, Scanlon explained.
“It’s able to be constructed with everything that’s already on island ― the precast yards, the concrete providers, and the cranes that are on island,” Scanlon said. “So, it’s not specialty equipment having to be procured, constructed, and then shipped to the island.”
(So, why the hell wasn't this the obvious way to build the rail line from the start and save SO MUCH MONEY?)
Escalators have been a feature on every one of Skyline’s stations so far, but Honolulu Area for Rapid Transit CEO Lori Kahikina, said HART decided they are too costly and hard to maintain and won’t be part of stations for the busiest part of the system.
They'll be trading escalators for elevators.
In addition to the lack of escalators, the stations will look different. For example, the tensile fabric canopies will be replaced as part of the more austere attitude, likely with steel roofs covered with solar panels.
The initial segment serves no major employment centers from Kapolei to the empty stadium. Ridership has been meager, but the city Department of Transportation Services says they are trending up.
In its second year, from July 1, 2024, to June 30, 2025, the city says Skyline recorded 1,204,341 trips while costing $89,163,189 to operate.
The segment is scheduled for completion in 2030.
The next significant milestone for the project is three months away: October 1 is the opening of segment two ― from the stadium to Middle Street, including the airport.
Major Wheeler had become well known for his daring reconnaissance and scouting flights in support of General Pershing's operations near the Mexican Border looking for Pancho Villa.
While Major Wheeler, former commander of Luke Field on Ford Island, was stationed at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, he and his sergeant died in a plane crash on July 13, 1921.
Wheeler Air Force Base, which is located on the island of Oahu, sharing the East fence of Pearl Harbor Naval Shipyard and Naval Base is named after Major Wheeler.... who was the commander of the Luke Field, on Ford Island, that was bombed during the attack by the Japanese on Dec 7, 1941.
Ford Island is the island in Pearl Harbor that the battleships were moored at. I was stationed at Pearl Harbor Subbase on the SSN 717, from 1991-1995, Sub Squadron 1.
Wheeler Air Force base was the site of several major historic aviation events, including the first nonstop Mainland-to-Hawaii flight by Army Air Corps Lieutenants Lester J. Maitland and Albert F. Hegenberger in 1927; the Great Dole Derby air race from California to Hawaii, also in 1927; the first trans-Pacific flight from the Untied States to Australia by Australian Squadron Leader Charles E. Kingsford-Smith in 1928; and the first Hawaii-to-Mainland solo flight in 1935 by Amerlia Earhart, who flew from Wheeler Field to Oakland, California.
and I didn't make a post about it, but I'm distantly related to the Schofield that Schofield Barracks is named for, he was the Sec Of War, late 1880s-ish, and Commander of the Army, and he prompted the president to lay claim to Pearl Harbor as a defensive forward operating base in the Pacific. Schofield Barracks had one of these trainshttps://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2022/05/the-norgrove-railway-outside-of-arroyo.html
2nd Int. Star Ride Rapperswil 1964 Star Riders Zurich
Hell, did you know you can dress your car up by buying these on Ebay? Yes, of course that seems obvious, but... it never occurred to me to fake where my car had been or what it had done to make it seem more interesting
The event was genuinely intended as a sort of employee fun day. According to Civil Beat, the Built From Scratch Mud Drag was created so contractors, along with their families and friends, of Wong’s Ohana Hui Ventures could “help us and be part of the soil tilling.” Staging, bleachers, food trucks, and merchants were organized, with admission costing $25.
People arrived in anything and everything, from modified ATVs and dragsters to lifted Tacomas and Miatas. However, an event set up for 500 saw the attendee numbers more than double in size when a flyer was leaked via social media.
Chefs of the Hawaii Regional Cuisine have been given tours of the farm on the sampan bus, seeing the hydroponic lettuce and watercress operation, seeing first hand the sustainability farming of fresh, locally grown produce
Now it's getting restored and improved for safety
He bought this sampan bus at auction a few years before 2007. There were seven or eight of them for sale that day. This one, which had previously been owned by the Lyman Museum, was the most authentic.
The Lyman House Memorial Museum offered tours of Hilo starting in 1988 with there sampans
This Plymouth was one of 8 for auction in the early 2000s, and went for 8k
Elvis was 31 years old in 1966 when this film was released
In 1961 he had the concert to raise money for the Arizona Memorial, he made 27 movies in the 60s, about 3 a year, and the director of this movie, Paradise Hawaiian Style directed 9 of them... and as ridiculously bad as they are, almost every one was profitable - and the ones on location in Hawaii got him on a working vacation
He proposed to Pricilla in Dec '66. They married in 67
At a press conference after a 1969 show, when a journalist referred to him as "The King", Presley gestured toward Fats Domino, who was taking in the scene. "No," Presley said, "that's the real king of rock and roll." (that's class)
The beautiful young Chinese woman, Irene Tsu, got her break in a Jimmy Stewart movie, was in 50 tv shows, and 32 movies, and now sells luxury Beverly Hills/Hollywood real estate and teaches yoga. She
was also the TV spokeswoman for Chevron Island Wiki Wiki Dollars which were part of the West Coast duel between Chevron and Shell
Tsu was in most tv shows in the 60s and 70s, My 3 Sons, Perry Mason, I Spy, Mission Impossible, The Man From U.N.C.L.E. Rockford Files, and The Wild Wild West.
She dated Sinatra for 2 years
Chevron paid game players "Wiki Wiki Dollars" of $1 to $2,500 for matching segments of game pieces and offered more than $2,300,000 in prizes as part of a "hula" bingo game
looks a lot like Pom Klementieff, who plays Mantis in the Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2
I think that everyone ignored my advice to interview James Garner before he died, as he could have been invaluable to paint the scene of Hollywood in the 60s and 70s, as he was a friend and competitor of Steve McQueen...
But Irene Tsu? Is probably the most overlooked last connection to Hollywood of the 60s and 70s... she worked with Jimmy Stewart, Elvis, James Garner, Bill Cosby, and dated Sinatra.
Let's see Hagerty, Hemmings, The Drive, and Jalopnik try and come within a mile of any post as cool as Elvis, Hawaii, Die Hard, James Garner, Sinatra, and Irene Tsu hula dancing on a gas pump
Lava flowing from Mauna Loa, the world's largest active volcano, could reach a highway connecting the east and west sides of Hawaii's Big Island within days, according to officials.
There is "a very high probability that this lava flow, if it continues, will definitely reach the road," Ken Hon, scientist-in-charge at the Hawaiian Volcano Observatory, told CBS News. "So we're looking at about two days out."
Although the flow is slow-moving, it is still persistent, and emergency managers are ramping up their planning as it threatens to cross over the Daniel K. Inouye Highway, also known as the DKI Highway or Saddle Road.
if the road ends up being shut down, the detour will add hours to the drive to get around the lava flow
Runway 8L, the airport’s primary runway, at Honolulu has been closed for construction since early October. Snowballing delays throughout the day, especially the short-duration, rapid-turn, interisland flights is the result. It it definitely will continue well into 2023.
Runway repair is an enormous project, and there is no projected completion date when the runway will reopen.
The 8L runway closure is huge for both Hawaiian Airlines and for HNL airport and the other carriers. More than 50% of the airport’s total runway capacity was lost by the outage, because of how the terminal-adjacent runways including 8L are used in tandem.
Pushing back all interisland flights by 10 minutes might greatly reduce the backup. Mainland flights, which have a much longer turnaround time, are less adversely impacted
The runway closure has led to longer gate-to-gate times for our neighbor island flights, especially early in the day. These early delays have tended to cascade through the rest of the day.
The food situation at HNL is dismal at best, which helped rank the airport at the very bottom of airports in the U.S. there are virtually no food options nearby, and those you can walk to in the next terminal over are awful, and even then, those concessions mostly all shut down by 5 pm.
