The City is seeking your input on the draft Oahu Bike Plan Update. At the 11/14 meeting they presented the draft network – this is a prioritized list planning out a bikeway network for all of Oahu. Please look at it and make sure it has everything we need to be truly bicycle friendly and submit your comments by 12/31/18.
Click here to go to the City’s official O’ahu Bike Plan Update website and submit your comments today!
The O’ahu Bike Plan guides the development of a connected, safe bikeway network all over O’ahu. It is being updated for the first time since 2012. This is a crucial opportunity to make sure the plan has everything in it to guide us to a truly bicycle friendly O’ahu. Click here to go to the City’s official O’ahu Bike Plan Update website.
The City Department of Transportation Services will be holding it’s final public for the O’ahu Bike Plan Update November 14th Wednesday 6:00-8:00pm at the Neal Blaisdell Center, Hawaii Suite. A series of public meetings were held in January and now the City is ready to present the draft bikeway network. Please come to make sure the Oahu Bike Plan has everything we need in it to make O’ahu bicycle-friendly for everyone.
Envision O’ahu with a network of bikeways that get you everywhere you need to go. At its core, this is the point of the O’ahu Bike Plan – to provide a master plan for a network bikeways to get people (from keiki to kupuna) all over O’ahu to the places they need to go. To achieve this objective, the O’ahu Bike Plan provides a prioritized list of projects to be implemented with the repaving of streets or through separately funded projects. Click here to submit comments online.
Complimentary T-Shirt or Jersey with your design on it!
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HBL is a local non-profit and has been the leading bicycle advocacy organization in Hawai‘i for over 40 years.
Our mission is to enable more people to ride bicycles for health, recreation, and transportation through advocacy, education, and events.
We host two large cycling events each year, and need YOUR HELP to make the 2019 Cycling Jerseys and Event T-Shirts Awesome!
For pictures from the 2018 parade, check out HBL’s City Lights Parade Facebook album!
Click here for ‘Ōlelo TV coverage of our cycling contingent!
This parade is sponsored by the City and County of Honolulu, and we are excited to be accepted in with the Department of Transportation Services’ contingent this year! They expect 2,000 marchers, 40 floats & 15 vehicles to participate in this popular Christmas parade. The parade starts at A’ala Park and goes down S. King Street, ending in front of Honolulu Hale. You can check out the parade route HERE. The parade runs from around 6:00-6:30pm, but the Honolulu City Lights Opening Night Festivities will be going on from 4-11pm! You can check out their schedule HERE. We will meet at the Fasi Municipal Building as early as 4:00pm by the fix-it station to decorate our rides, and then ride together to the start – between N. King Street & Hotel Street (near the Golden River Restaurant).
Because we are acting as guests of the City & County of Honolulu, Department of Transportation Services, in this city worker only parade, we are limited to thirty (30) parade riders. So sign-up if you can make it, participants will be accepted as a first-come first-served basis.
King St PBL is turning 4! We’re celebrating with a cleanup & cake!
King St Birthday Clean Up Party!
The King St Protected Bike Lane turns the big 4 on December 4th! To celebrate we’re having a volunteer clean up to get it looking as beautiful as it should be! Join us Tuesday December 4th 4:00pm for the King Street Protected Bike Lane clean up. The King St PBL provides a safe way for cyclists to travel in a busy part of Honolulu. We will be working to repair the curbing and delineators. Bring some gloves and come join HBL in the clean up! And we’ll cap the clean up party off with some celebratory cake.
Brief history and important life events: On December 4th, 2014 the King Street Cycletrack opened with a fittingly grand ceremony – Mayor Kirk Caldwell cut the ribbon and led the 500+ celebratory group on the inaugural ride. This was the first protected bike lane in Hawaii – it had a curb and delineators separating bicycle traffic from car traffic. It created a safe biking environment for a 2-mile stretch from Alapai St (on the edge of Downtown) to Isenberg St (not far from UH Manoa). The King St Protected Bike Lane (following the national trend, we moved from the term “cycletrack” to “protected bike lane”) was immediately popular with a big increase in people cycling on the street. The next major event was the conversion of the King St PBL into a two-way bikeway with special bike signals, which occurred in May 2015 (Bike Month!). While the popularity of King St PBL was immediately evident, the City Department of Transportation Services’ robust data collection showed the level of its success – by 2016, bicycle ridership numbers had increase by an average 94% and people riding on sidewalks had decreased from 67% before to only 5% after. King Street has seen a steady increase in ridership since then with the opening of McCully St bike lanes in January 2017 and South St Protected Bike Lane in May 2017, providing the first two mauka/makai connections, and the launch of the Biki public bikeshare system in July 2017 providing 1000 bikes across 100 stations.