Honolulu police officers direct traffic at the intersection of Mo`oheau and Kapahulu avenues to keep traffic flowing during morning rush hour. Traffic lights remain out in some parts of the island. RICHARD AMBO | The Honolulu Advertiser

Since power started being restored yesterday, DTS has managed to reset 93 percent of the island's 800 traffic signals, but will not meet its goal of having all signals fully operational before afternoon rush-hour.

The priority right now is to get traffic lights working at 10 highly-traveled intersections in urban Honolulu, including lights on Nimitz Highway, Ala Moana Boulevard, Kalakaua Avenue and King Street.

The traffic lights have to be manually reset after a power outage, and some have to be completely reprogrammed, which is why it is taking the nine DTS teams so long to fix the signals.