Rail doesn't deserve any further funding by the legislature. The lies to get it going are endless. It was never going to be commuter solution as was originally sold to the public. It's a land development scheme. How can anyone support such a total and complete fraud that costs $500 million a mile with less than 2% public benefit?
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Caldwell has proven over and over again to be self centered and self serving. It's all about his career and moving up the political ladder. He is a property lawyer and banker by trade using the political system to make himself and his friends rich.
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Heavy rail is not a good commuter solution for Honolulu, especially hugely expensive elevated rail. It's a blight on the landscape and running it downtown is insanely stupid. Many intelligent people saw this entire failure coming over a decade ago. It's all come to pass exactly as expected.
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The neighbor island reps don't understand any of this the way long time Oahu residents do.