SUPERFERRY TO CREATE SUPER TRAFFIC JAMS
WAILUKU, Maui — Even if a Maui court injunction is lifted next week, allowing the Hawai`i Superferry to resume sailing to Kahului Harbor, there remains a separate court order on traffic control that would present "a very big, big problem" for the ferry, said a state attorney.
The order by Maui Circuit Judge Joel August required that only two vehicles per minute to exit from the ferry site on the north end of Pu'unene Avenue, about 20 yards from one of the island's busiest intersections.
When the company's 350-foot catamaran, Alakai, came to Maui on Aug. 27 — the last time it sailed to Kahului — it took 55 minutes to get the nearly 90 disembarking vehicles onto public roads instead of the 20 minutes predicted by ferry officials.
