The timing of the signals at a busy pedestrian crosswalk creates hazards for kūpuna and others needing a little more time to cross back and forth to the Ala Moana Center, says nearby resident Lani Michael.
Michael lives in the Yacht Harbor Towers. Just outside Waikīkī, they loom over the crossing opposite Magic Island on the corner of Atkinson Drive and Ala Moana Boulevard and have a perfect view of the intersection.
The crosswalk traverses a total of eight traffic lanes broken up by two pedestrian islands in what traffic engineers call a multi-stage crossing.
“The problem is there’s only a certain amount of time that you have to cross all the way from that opposite corner all the way over to the shopping center side,” Michael said. “I proceed to walk and I can’t because cars are already going through it.”…