Sunday, February 21, 2016

Toll Road Most Beautiful and Controversial in Hawaii


The toll road is usually overlooks boring, but not this one. There is a toll road in Hawaii is even renowned for magnificent scenery. Like what anyway?

Known as H-3 Highway, or John A. Burns Freeway, the toll road is located on the island of O'ahu completed in 1997. The 16-mile long road that connects the naval base at Pearl Harbor Naval Pu'uloa with headquarters in Hawaii Mokapu Peninsula. The toll road is located along the bridges that are in Halawa valley along the 6 miles through the Ko'olau mountain tunnel and continue down until you reach the town of Haiku valley Kaneohe.

H-3 offers a beautiful view of Oahu through Halawa valley. Because so wonderful, not a few riders who walk slowly or even stop, causing congestion. While the tunnels are also high-tech with advanced features such as emergency call boxes, carbon dioxide detectors, smoke detectors, fresh air ventilation to the weather station
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The construction itself through a lot of controversy because it had resisted environmentalist community in 1980. The construction is considered to be damaging the ecosystem and natural beauty in the pathway. But the American senator when it managed to get Congress to development plans and construction finally began in 1986.


H-3 also included the most expensive toll road has been done with the funds per kilometer. Total construction spending USD 1.3 billion or USD 80 million per kilometer. However, these funds have covered traffic control center as well as equipment to monitor the situation in the tunnel and in the event of an accident.

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