HONOLULU (KHON2) — The City and County of Honolulu revealed there are 40,457 vehicles with expired registration on Oahu and 73% of those, or 29,618 vehicles, have not been registered in the last five years.
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“That’s a lot of vehicles,” said Bill Powers, City and County of Honolulu Dept. of Customer Services Information Specialist. “Almost 30,000 cars are driving on our highways in the last five years without being registered.”
He said it’s a significant number and they’re reminding folks to get their cars registered because those fees include road maintenance taxes.
“We’ve driven around places where we have potholes on our streets and our highways that we don’t have the funds to get to them all because we have so many vehicles that haven’t re-registered and their registration is due,” he explained.
“We do get quite a few vehicles coming in that are expired,” explained Won Pak, owner and partner at Punahou Auto Service. “Some are two, three years old, but the average is usually three to six months.”