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Updated at 2:22 p.m., Thursday, November 8, 2007

Hawaii's government offices to be closed Veterans Day

Advertiser Staff

Here is what's open and closed this weekend and Monday in connection with Veterans Day, a federal holiday:

  • State and county offices: Closed.

  • Federal offices: Closed.

  • Mail: All post offices closed; no business or residential delivery; no pick up from blue collection boxes; Express mail delivery to Honolulu addresses only.

  • Libraries: Closed Saturday through Monday. Kaimuki Branch open noon-8 p.m. Monday. For information, visit www.librarieshawaii.org or call your local library.

  • TheBus: Operating on a Saturday schedule; except for The Boat and the F-series, feeder buses will be on a weekday schedule. Information: 848-5555.

  • Handi-Vans: Operating.

  • On-street parking: Free, except for metered stalls on Kalakaua Avenue along Kapi'olani Park; holiday tow-away zone parking as permitted by sign; meters in municipal lots must be fed.

  • Traffic: No coning.

  • Parks, recreation centers, municipal golf courses, botanical gardens and Honolulu Zoo: Open.

  • Trash: Regular rubbish pickup.

  • Landfills/refuse transfer stations: Open.

  • People's Open Markets: Closed.

  • Banks, including supermarket branches, will be closed.

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

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

  • City buses will operate on a Saturday schedule. Except for the TheBoat and the F-series (F2, F3, F11, F12, F13) feeder bus services which will operate their regular Weekday Schedule.  Call 848-5555 for schedule information. The Handi-Vans will operate as usual.

     

    These traffic and parking regulations will be in effect:

  • On-street parking will be free, except for the meters on Kalakaua Avenue along Kapi'olani Park.

  • Parking will be permitted in towaway zones that allow it on holidays.

  • There will be no coning of traffic lanes.

  • Traffic signals at Kalakaua Avenue and Kapi'olani Boulevard will be three-phase to permit mauka-bound traffic to turn left onto Kapi'olani Boulevard.

  • Motorists are reminded that parking in municipal lots with meters will not be free and that the meters must be fed 24 hours a day.