At the beginning of the month, the City and County Department of Transportation Services gave a presentation at the McCully-Moiliili Neighborhood Board meeting concerning their plan to install bike lanes along McCully Street.  (The minutes will be available here.)  This is a plan that has been discussed for a while, going back at least to January.  Most news stories highlighted the removal of parking spots, such as Hawaii News Now (“McCully Street to get bike lanes, lose parking“) or the Honolulu Star-Advertiser (“McCully Street bike lanes to eliminate up to 30 parking spots“)  [You may notice in the Star-Advertiser URL that their original headline read “up to 80 parking spots”; the headline was corrected but not the sharable link.]

What’s unfortunate about these stories is that they missed an important aspect–that parking along McCully Street is unsafe and that the City and County would consider removing it whether or not bike lanes were added.  Continue reading →