What’s Open or Closed in Honolulu for Christmas 2016

Your guide to which Honolulu City and County services will be available or suspended in observance of Christmas on Dec. 25 and Dec. 26, 2016.
Enjy El-Kadi,
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Photo: CITY AND COUNTY OF HONOLULU

 

Christmas Day, Sunday, Dec. 25, 2016

 

AVAILABLE SERVICES

  • Emergency ambulance, fire, lifeguard, medical examiner, and police services will be available.

  • TheBus will operate on a Sunday schedule. For route and schedule information, please visit thebus.org.

  • The Pali and West Loch golf courses will be open from 7 a.m. to 11 a.m. for 18-hole play and 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. for 9-hole play.

 

CLOSED OR CANCELED SERVICES

  • Refuse transfer stations, convenience centers, H-POWER, and the Waimānalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill will be closed.

  • The Ala Wai, Kahuku, Ted Makalena, and Ewa Villages golf courses will be closed.

  • The Honolulu Botanical Gardens and Honolulu Zoo will be closed.

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

 

Christmas Day (Observed) Monday, Dec. 26, 2016

 

AVAILABLE SERVICES

  • Emergency ambulance, fire, lifeguard, medical examiner, and police services will be available.

  • TheBus will operate on a Sunday schedule. For route and schedule information, please visit thebus.org.

  • Refuse transfer stations, convenience centers, H-POWER, and the Waimānalo Gulch Sanitary Landfill will be open.

  • Parks, municipal golf courses, botanical gardens, and the Honolulu Zoo will be open.

  • The People’s Open Markets will be open.

 

CLOSED OR CANCELED SERVICES

  • Refuse will NOT be collected:

Residents using the 3-cart collection system, with once-a-week refuse and recycling pickup, are asked to leave gray-refuse carts curbside until picked up (usually within two business days). Hold green and blue carts until the next scheduled pickup date.

Residents with twice-per-week manual refuse collection are asked to wait for the next scheduled pick up date. Pickup schedules can be found by going to Opala.org at the following link: bit.ly/2hPSLfn.

  • The Neal S. Blaisdell Center box office will be closed.

  • All Satellite City Halls and Driver Licensing Centers will be closed.

 

TRAFFIC AND PARKING REGULATIONS

  • On-street parking will be free, except for the meters on Kalākaua Avenue along Queen Kapi‘olani Park and metered parking lots.

  • Traffic lanes will not be coned for contraflow.

 

 

This article appears in the December 2016 issue of HONOLULU Magazine.

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