Expect heavy traffic at UH, Kaimuki

Advertiser Staff

Motorists are being advised that traffic may be unusually heavy because of events at the University of Hawai'i today and tomorrow and a Christmas parade in Kaimuki tonight.

UH will host the first and second rounds of the NCAA women's volleyball tournament tonight and tomorrow. The matches begin at 5 and 7 p.m. each day.

Also at 6 tonight, the 56th annual Kaimuki Christmas parade will affect traffic along Wai'alae Avenue from St. Louis School to Koko Head Avenue. The parade will force people driving to the UH campus to enter via University Avenue and Dole Street.

UH officials said overflow cars from the UH parking structures will be directed to the upper campus parking lots and the gravel lot near the Center for Hawaiian Studies.

Free shuttles will run from 5:30 p.m. until 45 minutes after the last match.

Two shuttles will run from the Center for Korean Studies to Krauss Circle/Andrews Amphitheater. One shuttle will run from the Center for Hawaiian Studies to Krauss Circle/Andrews Amphitheater via East West Road.

The following stops will be marked with signs: Krauss Circle/Andrews Amphitheater; Correa Road/Kuy-kendall and across the street by the Art Building near Bilger Hall; Correa Road/Wata-nabe Hall fronting Zone A; regular Rainbow Shuttle stops fronting Jefferson Hall and Kennedy Theatre; fronting the Center for Korean Studies; and fronting Moore Hall.