09/19/2026
An effort by the State Department of Accounting and General Services (DAGS) Automotive Management Division (AMD) to automate payments at another one of its parking garages will affect hundreds of drivers. Starting September 23, 2026 the Makai Garage Lot A will only accept automated payments. AMD encourages drivers to plan ahead.
This 77-stall public lot is at 530 Halekauwila Street at the corner of Punchbowl and Halekauwila Streets in the Capitol District. It’s near several state buildings: Kaʻahumanu Hale (First Circuit Court), the Department of Taxation, the Department of Transportation and the Department of Labor and Industrial Relations. It’s also kitty corner from the federal building that houses the US District Court and the Social Security Administration Honolulu.
The affected parties will include lawyers, prosecutors, jurors, witnesses, drivers with a parking placard (like media) and the general public, particularly those with business at the aforementioned buildings. State workers who have parking permits in this lot will not be affected.
“Automated pay stations allow DAGS to efficiently use state resources. The two staff who work at Makai Garage Lot A will be reassigned to other duties to better serve the public,” says Acting Lieutenant Governor Keith Regan, who is also the DAGS director and state comptroller.
