Finish the rail means we must build rail all the way to UH at a minimum. Do it right means we need to manage the costs and schedule but must also recognize that building it cheapest and fastest isn't always the smartest or most efficient thing to do over the long term. 

Costs can me amortized and recovered over decades or even generations. The continual focus on cost right now, is short sighted. It's more important to maximize utility, quality, and aesthetics which all have direct long term impacts on quality of life. And quality of life is really what we should be optimizing, not dollars. 

I agree project management has been subpar up to this point and needs to be vastly improved. However it is important to keep the proper perspective. We are only 1% into the lifetime of the rail project. We have a long way to go and there is still plenty of time to do better. We should not be re-litigating the decision to build it at every bump in the road