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Multimodal Transportation in the South Maui District

5/3/26  #kihei Almost daily we hear community comments about the lack of transportation infrastructure in South Maui. Traffic jams on the Pi'ilani Hwy; why don't we have sidewalks? what happened to the North South Collector Road? I would bike ride if it was safe; buses that come once per hour have little value; we need a plan!   Almost six years ago there was an attempt at some proposals coordinated through the Maui Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO)  ...

South Maui Needs Shade Trees NOW

5/1/26  #Kihei#   There is that old expression  that offers the best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago.  Next best is NOW!  So we have the who (YOU!) the  what and the when. How about the where? Even the best tree planted in the wrong location may not work. "Right Tree Hawaii" can help with the where once you have the what. https://www.righttreehawaii.com/        

UPDATE 4/25/26 Will they construct and OPEN a new hotel in LIPOA (R & T Park)??

UPDATE  4/25/26      After years this completed but vacant facility is being utilized, at least temporarily. Hale Makua also helped Maui Health transfer 50 patients to a facility in the Kīhei Research and Technology Park that ‘Ohana Pacific Health, a sister company of Hale Makua, had been trying to sell. A wing of Maui Memorial has also been cordoned off for Kula patients. Fulton said Kula staff have also relocated to the facilities where their patients have gone.  ...

Kulanihako’i Stream Gulch

4/22/26 #kihei      

Power Lines and Street Tree Meeting Recap

Councilman Don Couch followed the KCA opening announcements of Paige Fontaine and Elaine Malina to advise the audience about the under construction roundabout and plans to expand our soon to open bike path, before arborist extraordinaire Ernie Rezents offered a power...

NOAA Presents Monk Seal Critical Habitat Plan

An active, and at times almost hostile, audience attened the Kihei Community Center to hear NOAA offer a proposed critical habitat for the critically endanged Hawaiian Monk Seal to include portions of araes near the major habitated Hawaiian Islands.  ...

County Council approves moped ban on bike path

This first reading at Maui County Council, directed by chair Danny Mateo, this morning achieved unanimous approval (7-0) to ban mopeds from the newly opened  Kihei bike path makai Liloa in central Kihei. Walter Enomoto of the Maui Bicycle Coalition, in addition to...

Kihei Roundabout begins construction- FACT

When the county governmental officials did the ceremonial groundbreaking picture on 7/30/11, it really was the begining. A few days later the professional builders were hard at work at the intersection of Pi'ikea and Liloa, changing the present four way stop to a...

Kihei Bike Path Fantasy?

The grand opening of the Kihei bike path makai of Liloa St in central Kihei on 7/30/11, as reported here , as well as in the local media, indicated that, except for the cetraal portion on each side of Pi'ikea, was ready for use. However, it is evident that is not the...

Kihei’s First Bicycle Path Opens- Roundabout Breaks Ground

How many people would ride a bike across Kihei, if there was a safe pleasant place to ride? Sure, many of us ride along So Kihei Rd. "WATCH OUT!!" dodging right turning & drifting motor vehicles, abruptly ending bike lanes and numerous other impediments, and some...

So Maui Regional Park (Phase 1A) Opens July 29

A formal Hawaiian blessing and dedication took place on Friday morning with the tradional mahalo to so very many of the people who were invloved on numerous levels, including the KCA, as Maui celebrated opening of the first segment of the park after about 20 years of...

Who is neglecting the trees in Kihei?

As you enter Kihei at the intersection of the Mokulele Highway and No Kihei Road, as you glance to your left to take in Haleakala, there is a grove of trees fronting a Monsanto property, offering a picturesque view. However, for some time, the irrigation has stopped...