Wedged in between a bustling Costco gas station and Kapālama Hale, a city-owned parking lot is heavily used by visitors to the driver’s licensing center and a satellite City Hall.
The lot at 925 Dillingham Ave., entered via Alakawa Street, has 181 stalls with 92 assigned to staff, 81 for public parking and eight for people doing their driver’s license examinations.
By Hawaiʻi standards, the price is pretty reasonable. A $2-per-half-hour rate can be validated down to 75 cents. On the downside, a Tuesday afternoon visit by Civil Beat found wide patches where the surface is crumbling, clusters of large potholes and barely legible directional arrows for traffic flow.
Several submissions to our tip line said the lack of clear traffic arrows results in drivers often trying to leave through the entry gate, and that the overall experience for paying cusomters is shabby…