FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 5, 2004

GOOD FRIDAY HOLIDAY SCHEDULE

            City offices will be closed on Friday, April 9, in observance of Good Friday, a state holiday.

• Emergency ambulance, fire, lifeguard and police services will be available.

• The People’s Open Markets will not be held.

• Municipal golf courses, recreation centers, zoo and botanical gardens will be open.

• Regular Friday refuse collections will be made and landfills/transfer stations will be open.

• TheBus will operate on its state holiday schedule.  (For route and schedule information, go to www.thebus.org .)

• Handi-Vans will operate as usual.

            These traffic and parking regulations will be in effect:

·        On-street parking will be free, except for meters on Kalakaua Avenue along Kapiolani Park;

·        Parking will be permitted in the towaway zones that allow it on holidays;

·        There will be no coning of traffic lanes;

·        Traffic signals at Kalakaua Avenue and Kapiolani Boulevard will be three-phase to permit mauka-bound traffic to turn left onto Kapiolani Boulevard;

·        Meters must be fed in municipal parking lots.

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