ROH §15-21.10
Heavy vehicle ban on Tantalus Road
Read the official text at honolulu.gov ↗This section bans driving any vehicle that weighs more than 8 tons (including its load) on a specific part of Tantalus Road. Emergency vehicles and vehicles with a special permit from the transportation director are allowed. The permit is only given in an emergency.
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The ordinance, as written (Honolulu County) — Restricting the use of Tantalus Road by heavy vehicles
A copy, taken August 22, 2026. The version published by Honolulu is the one that governs, and it may have changed since. Check it before relying on anything here.
(a) A person may not drive any motor vehicle having an aggregate weight of vehicle and load in excess of 8 tons in either direction over that part of Tantalus Road beginning from the mauka side of Papakolea Bridge to the junction of Round Top-Makiki Road.
(b) The foregoing provisions do not apply to an authorized emergency vehicle, as defined previously, while the driver of the vehicle is operating the same in an emergency in the necessary performance of the driver’s duties, nor to a vehicle, the owner or operator of which has obtained from the director of transportation services a permit authorizing the operation of the vehicle over the described road. The director of transportation services shall issue a permit only when it appears to the director’s satisfaction that an emergency exists necessitating the issuance of a permit.
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