§264-65 New and existing facilities; grade-crossing eliminations. The director of transportation may designate and establish controlled-access highways as new and additional facilities or may designate and establish an existing public highway as included within a controlled-access facility. The director may provide for the elimination of intersections at grade of controlled-access facilities with existing public highways by grade separation or service road, or by closing off the highways at the right-of-way boundary line of the controlled-access facility; and after the establishment of any controlled-access facility, no highway which is not part of the facility shall intersect the same at grade. No public highway shall be opened into or connected with any such controlled-access facility without the consent and previous approval of the director. The consent and approval shall be given only if the public interest is served thereby. [L 1960, c 3, pt of §2; Supp, §111-47; HRS §264-65; gen ch 1985]