Contra Flow

The county of Kauai has an interesting solution to the problem of traffic on the main road into and out of its largest city, Lihue. Instead of the more traditional (and costly) solutions of adding lanes or demarcating and dedicating a lane to change directions with lots of fancy gates and signs, they manually change one of the outbound lanes of Highway 56 into an inbound lane. With about three miles of orange cones.

I've seen this now for four days in a row—Monday through Thursday—and although it seems like a huge (and spendy?) hassle to unload and load thousands of traffic cones every day, I suppose it's still far cheaper than adding another lane to the crowded and bridge-bound road.