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Complete Waialae Avenue

Please join us in a show of support for bicycle lanes tonight! Community Outreach Event Thursday, April 19 7:00-9:00PM @ Kaimuki Community Park, 3521 Waialae Avenue  View Event in Calendar Two hours of your day can make Waialae a complete street!  Please, wear yellow or neon green to show your support or a HBL or [...]

Waialae – Stripe it and We Will Ride it

Perhaps the most famous quote from the popular movie ‘Field of Dreams‘ was the repetitive command heard in dreams by the film’s main character, “Build it and they will come.” The farmer finally relents to the command and builds a baseball field in the middle of a cornfield in Iowa.  Subsequently, spirits do come to [...]

Status Update – Waialae Ave

At the first Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Bicycling meeting yesterday, City Bicycling Coordinator Chris Sayers informed the committee that the final decision on bike lanes on Waialae Avenue has yet to be determined. “The City Department of Transportation Services (DTS) is still evaluating the data collected during the test which included observations, speed and volume [...]

Action Alert! Neighborhood Board Meeting

Action Alert! 7pm, Thursday 10/13, Diamond Head/Kapahulu/St. Louis Neighborhood Board @404 Kapahulu Avenue (Ala Wai Golf Club House)The movement for complete streets on our island starting with Waialae Avenue has mobilized the community and helped push DTS closer to realizing the project. Through multiple showings of strong community support we have gotten the official support of [...]

Holoholo – 9.30.11

This month on our holoholo ride we rode this route: State Capitol > Beretania > Dillingham > turn at HCC > Nimitz > Ala Moana > Piikoi > King The Nimitz > Ala Moana stretch was a horrendous experience and a mood killer. After riding on this stretch in the gutter(there were cars that purposefully [...]

Take the Eat Local Challenge!

Many of you may know, and some of you may not, but this month Kanu Hawaii is putting on the Eat Local Challenge. Hnlbike has partnered with Kanu Hawaii as an informational partner to encourage the Honolulu cycling community to take the challenge and learn about our food system here in Hawaii. Art +Bike Friday [...]

Good Vibes at KVIBE

Entering Kalhi Valley on Kamehameha IV Road, it’s easy to miss KVIBE, which is housed in a non-discrete tan warehouse building on the makai bound side of the road.  You’ll know you have found the right spot, when you see the bright pink bicycle rack and the colorful graffitied warehouse doors in the parking lot. [...]

Is the Holoholo Ride a Critical Mass?

Holoholo Ride is Tonight!  August 26, 6PM at the State Capitol, Beretania Side! The holoholo ride is like hundreds of critical mass counterparts across the globe, in that it convenes as a group of cyclists on the last friday of every month. However, here are the key differences. 1) The holoholo ride is very new, [...]

Waialae Bike Lane Battleground

It’s no secret that Honolulu’s streets are not the safest for cyclists – with one of the highest bicycle fatality rates in the nation, it’s no wonder our streets are car dominated. Unfortunately, the process of changing urban transportation is a complex and time-consuming process. You cannot just go out with a bucket of white [...]

Action Alert – 8/17, 7pm Tonight!

Action Alert!  7pm tonight, Tuesday, 8/17 @ 1117 Koko Head Ave(Kaimuki Christian Church) Tonight is an important moment in the movement to create a complete Waialae and complete streets on our island.We will be at the Kaimuki Neighborhood Board tonight presenting on and asking for official support for bike lanes on Waialae Avenue.  A team [...]