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 On weekdays, the direction of traffic on major streets is altered by police to accommodate commuter traffic. The street system, which makes no sense to start with, gets even more confusing when this happens. Hapless visitors may find themselves anywhere—or nowhere.

 You can’t return the way you came. It is usually impossible for you to simply retrace the route you took to the trailhead in order to return to your hotel. You will have to figure out two different routes, one out, one back. One-way streets are particularly responsible for this problem.

 You can’t get back on the freeway where you got off it. Freeway on- and off-ramps are almost never logically paired. The freeways do not link parts of the city; rather, they slice the city apart. The freeways’ purpose is to link major military installations (Hawaii, particularly Oahu, is full of military sites). This is why an island-state more than 2000 watery miles from the nearest other state nevertheless has federally funded interstate highways.