PARTNERS: City & County of State Department of Health Blue Zones Project QUICK BUILD Ulupono Initiative National Park Service COMPLETE STREETS PROJECT Governor Wallace Rider Councilmember Joey Manahan Students Making It Safer in Our Communities StreetPlans

WHY WAS IT RIGHT FOR KALIHI?

} Located within the forth- coming Rail corridor, Kalihi is already home to an existing Complete Streets effort. In addition, King Street sees more than 22,000 vehicles2 and 36,000 bus riders per day3 – yielding more than 40 crashes4 in the immediate vicinity of Farrington High School over a 10-year period.

Therefore, the City & County What is a “Quick Build” of Honolulu and Hawaii State Department of Health, lever- Hawai‘i faces a climate and street iterative processes that use flexible instal- aging non-traditional funds, safety crisis. Both can be ad- lation materials, such as paint and move- able barriers to support walking, biking, collaborated with community dressed simultaneously — we need and transit, to achieve a replicable result. partners and quick build ex- to get more people in active trans- Although smaller in scale than large street- perts to engage nearby Engi- portation, and we need to protect scape projects, we know creating protected neering Academy students in improving walkability in their them more effectively from vehic- spaces for walkers and bikers helps make these activities more desirable and likely. community through design of ular violence, especially children new painted curb extensions, and vulnerable users. However, Walking is three times more common in reflective of the local natural we can’t wait for every street to a community with pedestrian-friendly environment. These improve- ments included reducing the be reconfigured around walking, streets than in otherwise comparable communities that are less conducive to foot crossing distance and time biking, and transit through lengthy travel.1 So if walking conditions improve, for pedestrians, conveying construction processes — and we then more people will feel safe and walk. the multimodal nature of this don’t have to! With a quick build, we can see if the new corridor visually and help- design works before investing significant ing to improve safety for all Quick build projects, by definition, allow capital resources (e.g., Is there demand for travelers. for an expedited response to community these new modes in this new location? Will needs. They take less than a year to plan, people bike and walk here? How will the are implemented through incremental and drivers respond realistically?).

1 https://www.vtpi.org/tdm/tdm4.htm 2 http://histategis.maps.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?useExisting=1&layers=debc2e88ce4949b384b954a07ad97ce3 3 2012 Honolulu 2012 On-Board Transit Survey, HART – ridership for routes 1, 10, and A 4 https://www.arcgis.com/home/webmap/viewer.html?webmap=667bcd3b19134981888a87535a3e606a KALIHI QUICK BUILD COMPLETE STREETS PROJECT Students Making It Safer for Students in Our Community

communities with three schools nearby is also unclear how they will be main- What did we and how parts of King Street are really tained going forward. learn for next the neighborhood’s main street or how busy a transit corridor this is. Many Bus turns are tricky — The original time? drivers were not driving in response to placement of the delineators didn’t this context, exhibiting unsafe behavior allow enough space for the buses to get Before, An excited community — by cutting through lanes, fast and blind in and out of their stops easily and effec- during, and after the project, local turn decisions, etc. tively. When doing quick-build projects, residents expressed appreciation it’s important to be nimble and flexible, that the City and other community Materials and timing matter — Se- but sometimes doing so can be difficult. members were there investing in lected paint materials didn’t perform as their community. well as planned. Paint quality and contex- Strong input for Kalihi Complete tual application are important. As a result, Streets & future builds forthcoming Missing fine-grained safety — The only two out of the six curb extension — This project is an informative starting students at Farrington High School provid- markings lasting two months later (those point for successive projects aimed at pri- ed insight into their lived experiences of in front of the high school remain). oritizing safety and active transportation. feeling unsafe, even in a community with Furthermore, at first the delineators It also shows how non-traditional funding lots of people walking. The data doesn’t talk were only glued down, not bolted. The sources, such as those from health depart- about how these intersections connect bolting couldn’t happen until later. It ments, can kickstart these investments.

15-40% Ü in Crossing Distance 15-20% Ü in Crossing Time

Before Fall 2019 € AfterWinter 2020 €

} Crossing 64 feet on King Street takes 15 seconds. Crossing 70 feet on Haka Street takes 13 seconds.

CONTACT: City & County of Honolulu Department of Transportation Services Hawai‘i Department of Health Renee Espiau, [email protected] Chris “CJ” Johnson, [email protected]