Editing Interstate H-3 (section)

{{Short description|Interstate Highway in Hawaii, US}}
{{Use American English|date=April 2025}}
{{More citations needed|date=September 2024}}
{{Confuse|Interstate 3}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=November 2013}}
{{Infobox road
| state = HI
| route = 3
| type = I
| alternate_name = John A. Burns Freeway
| map = {{maplink|frame=yes|plain=yes|frame-align=center|frame-width=290|frame-height=250|frame-lat=21.402|frame-long=-157.841|zoom=11|type=line|raw={{Wikipedia:Map data/Wikipedia KML/Interstate H-3}}}}
| map_custom = yes
| map_notes = H-3 highlighted in red
| length_mi = 15.32
| length_ref = <ref>{{cite web |last=Starks |first=Edward |date=January 27, 2022 |title=Table 1: Main Routes of the Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways |url=https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/planning/national_highway_system/interstate_highway_system/routefinder/table01.cfm |access-date=January 22, 2023 |work=FHWA Route Log and Finder List |publisher=[[Federal Highway Administration]]}}</ref>
| established = December 12, 1997
| direction_a = West
| terminus_a = {{Jct|state=HI|I|1}} in [[Aiea, Hawaii|Aiea]]
| junction = {{Jct|state=HI|I|201}} in Halawa
| direction_b = East
| terminus_b = [[Marine Corps Base Hawaii]] main gate
| counties = [[Honolulu County, Hawaii|Honolulu]]
| previous_type = I
| previous_route = 2
| next_type = HI
| next_route = 11
}}

'''Interstate&nbsp;H-3''' ('''H-3''') is an [[Interstate Highway]] located entirely within the US state of [[Hawaii]] on the island of [[Oʻahu]]. H-3 is also known as the John A. Burns Freeway, after [[John A. Burns|the second governor of Hawaii]]. It crosses the [[Koʻolau Range]] along several [[Windward Viaducts|viaducts]] and through the {{convert|5165|ft|m|adj=mid|-long}} [[Tetsuo Harano Tunnels]] as well as the much smaller [[Hospital Rock Tunnels]].

Despite the number, signage is that of an east–west highway. Its western terminus is at an interchange with [[Interstate H-1|H-1]] at [[Halawa, Hawaii|Halawa]] near [[Pearl Harbor]]. Its eastern end is at the main gate of [[Marine Corps Base Hawaii]] (MCBH). This route satisfies the national defense purpose of connecting MCBH with the US Navy port at Pearl Harbor off H-1.

Orders for the freeway were granted in 1960, followed by planning stages. Construction, amid enormous community protest, was begun in the late 1980s, although the road did not open until December 12, 1997. Environmental complaints and legal challenges halted construction at many points. Construction resumed during the late 1980s after a move by US Senator [[Daniel Inouye]], who, in 1986, had the freeway exempted from most [[environmental law]]s<ref>{{Cite book|last=Hamasaki|first=Mark|last2=Landgraf|first2=Anne Kapulani|title=Ē luku wale ē = Devastation upon devastation|publisher=Ai Pōhaku Press in association with Native Hawaiian Education Association|year=2015|location=Honolulu}}</ref> as a [[rider (legislation)|rider]] on a [[United States Department of Defense|Department of Defense]] budget bill.<ref>{{cite web |date=October 2, 1986 |title=Senate Amendment 3116 to House Joint Resolution 738, 99th Congress |url=https://www.congress.gov/amendment/99th-congress/senate-amendment/3116 |publisher=[[United States Congress]] |access-date=August 7, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title=Making Continuing Appropriations for Fiscal Year 1987 (Conference Report to H.J. Res. 738) |chapter=Amendment No. 55: Interstate Highway H-3 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/makingcontinuing00unit/page/783 783]–784 |publisher=[[United States Government Printing Office]] |date=October 15, 1986 |url=https://archive.org/details/makingcontinuing00unit |via=[[Internet Archive]] |access-date=August 7, 2016}}</ref>

H-3 was the most expensive Interstate Highway ever built, on a cost-per-mile basis.<ref>{{cite book |last = McNichol |first = Dan |year = 2006 |url = https://books.google.com/books?id=b0qO1yCFRxYC&pg=PA176 |title = The Roads that Built America: The Incredible Story of the U.S. Interstate System |location = New York |publisher = Sterling |page = 176 |isbn = 9781402734687 |oclc = 1152948489 |via = Google Books |access-date = May 18, 2022 }}</ref> Its final cost was $1.3&nbsp;billion (equivalent to ${{Formatprice|{{inflation|US-GDP|1300000000|1997}}}} in {{Inflation/year|index=US-GDP}}{{Inflation/fn|index=US-GDP}}), or approximately $80&nbsp;million per mile ({{convert|80|e6$/mi|e6$/km|abbr=unit|disp=output number only}}/km; equivalent to ${{formatprice|{{inflation|US-GDP|80000000|1997}}}} per mile [{{convert|{{inflation|US-GDP|80|1997}}|e6$/mi|e6$/km|abbr=off|disp=output number only}}/km] in {{Inflation/year|index=US-GDP}}{{Inflation/fn|index=US-GDP}}).<ref name="HSB-Dec3"/>