§264-65  New and existing facilities;grade-crossing eliminations.  The director of transportation may designateand establish controlled-access highways as new and additional facilities ormay designate and establish an existing public highway as included within acontrolled-access facility.  The director may provide for the elimination ofintersections at grade of controlled-access facilities with existing publichighways by grade separation or service road, or by closing off the highways atthe right-of-way boundary line of the controlled-access facility; and after theestablishment of any controlled-access facility, no highway which is not partof the facility shall intersect the same at grade.  No public highway shall beopened into or connected with any such controlled-access facility without theconsent and previous approval of the director.  The consent and approval shallbe 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]