Interstate H-3: τι υπάρχει τριγύρω, πώς να φτάσετε και πότε να πάτε · 2026

The project provoked decades of fierce public opposition and legal battles over sacred Native Hawaiian cultural sites. Planners originally routed the highway through Moanalua Valley, where the Damon family organized the Moanalua Gardens Foundation to protect a historic petroglyph stone called Pohaku ka Luahine. Activists forced federal agencies to drop that path, relocating the asphalt corridor into Halawa Valley instead.

Cultural practitioners still protest the highway because construction destroyed religious complexes in Halawa. Many Kanaka Maoli consider the corridor cursed and refuse to drive it. Environmental monitoring documents ongoing damage to native ecosystems, including light pollution, weed invasion, and runoff affecting stream life. Habitat loss contributed to the disappearance of the endemic Oʻahu ʻalauahio bird from the valley.