Motorists may get to use the new fourth eastbound lane on the H-1 Freeway today between the Liliha on-ramp and the Pali Highway off-ramp. The opening of the extra lane was postponed yesterday as work crews needed one more day to finish striping the road.

"We needed one more night to do the re-striping," said Scott Ishikawa, Department of Transportation spokesman. Crews worked overnight Monday, but were unable to complete the job in time for traffic, he said.

"We don't want to do half of it and leave the other half the way it was," Ishikawa said. "It just takes a while to do sometimes."

The extra lane is expected to relieve congestion at a point where drivers enter the freeway at the Liliha on-ramp and may exit a quarter-mile later. Crews created the new lane out of the shoulder lane and by narrowing the other three lanes.