Users of the city-owned parking lot at the Kapālama Driver License Center will have to wait for repaving maintenance on the site, after the city of Honolulu decided to use its own road crews for the job instead of an outside contractor who might have completed work sooner.
The decision represents savings for ratepayers, but the funds still need to be identified, and the city has yet to conduct a procurement and bidding process to acquire the road materials and set a start date, Honolulu spokesman Scott Humber said in an email Tuesday.
Rewind to July 14, when the site at 925 Dillingham Blvd. was featured in a Fix It! story after several readers emailed Civil Beat about the long-cratered road surface and faded arrows creating traffic flow confusion at the busy facility…