A permitting loophole means the popular fast-food chain known for creating traffic snarls isn’t required to do traffic studies, and the city can’t make them.

Neighborhood boards and Honolulu residents are renewing calls for the city to address traffic and safety issues they say continue more than two years after Chick-fil-A opened its drive-through restaurant in the dense neighborhood of Makiki.

They’re asking the city to enforce a traffic management plan the fast-food giant submitted with its building application, meant to ensure that traffic didn’t back up onto one of Honolulu’s busiest traffic corridors.

While long lines at fast-food restaurants are nothing new, residents say the problems surrounding the Makiki Chick-fil-A are unique and could have been foreseen if a proper traffic s

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