Kaua‘i Bus shifts Līhue campus stop for Friday maintenance work

Riders in Līhue who depended on The Kaua‘i Bus to reach the Kaua‘i Community College performing arts center had to shift to the stop on Kaumuali‘i Highway in front of the campus after 12 p.m. Friday, June 26, while maintenance work temporarily blocked the stop inside the college. The county said the campus stop was scheduled to reopen Saturday, June 27, and the change affected routes 100, 200, 400, 500, 800 and 850.

Anyone traveling through the college area for class, work, errands or appointments needed to build in extra time and make sure they were boarding at the right stop. The practical split was simple: the stop inside Kaua‘i Community College at the performing arts center closed for the afternoon, but the stop on Kaumuali‘i Highway in front of the college stayed open and continued on its regular schedule.

Think of the detour like a two-stop map. The campus stop sat inside Kaua‘i Community College at the performing arts center. The backup stop sat directly out front on Kaumuali‘i Highway. Friday after noon, riders heading toward that campus location had to use the highway stop, not the one on school grounds.

The Kaua‘i Bus is the County of Kaua‘i’s fixed-route and paratransit transit system, and county transportation pages say its service runs from Hanalei to Kekaha. That reach makes even a short stop change in Līhue more than a campus inconvenience, especially for students, workers and kūpuna who rely on scheduled buses instead of private cars.

County route materials list routes 100, 200, 400, 500, 800 and 850 among the system’s standard lines, and route PDFs show the Kaua‘i Community College Performing Arts Center stop on several of them, including routes 100, 400 and 500. The county’s bus schedules page also maintains printed schedules and a Bus Stop Application process, a sign that riders depend on formal stop locations and posted schedule information when a stop is taken out of service, even briefly.