The H-1 Freeway ZipperLane will be deployed earlier than normal, beginning at 5 p.m. today for overnight repaving work on the H-1 Freeway in the westbound direction between Kunia Road and Paiwa Street in the Waikele/Waipahu area.

The ZipperLane will open to morning rush-hour traffic on its normal schedule at 5:30 a.m. tomorrow morning,

The early deployment of the ZipperLane will separate crews from freeway traffic as part of a pavement resurfacing project from Waipahu to Waikele and allow work crews adequate time to complete scheduled tasks. Construction hours will be between 9 p.m. and 4:30 a.m.

Nightly roadwork, with no early zipperlane deployment, will resume on Monday night.

The "pavement preservation" project will resurface all lanes along the 1.83 mile-stretch of the H-1 Freeway between Waipahu Street and the Waikele Stream Bridge and also includes the on-and-off-ramps at the Paiwa Interchange and the eastbound Waipahu off-ramp (Exit 8A (East)).

Contractor Grace Pacific Corporation is scheduled to complete the $4.6 million project in June 2008.