Hawaiian Electric crews are tearing out decades-old wooden poles and planting sturdier steel and composite replacements along a busy stretch of Honoapiʻilani Highway in Lahaina, a high-profile step in a two-year pole-hardening push tied to the town’s rebuilding after the 2023 wildfire. This week, workers were digging and staging equipment between Kai Hele Ku Street and Aholo Road as lines come down and new poles go up across roughly a two-mile c…
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