Forgetting history condemns one to repeat it
So I remember. The Ferry didn't fail. Lingle and other GOPs abandoned it. Maybe to please businesses that paid much for a privileged seat on her first term's made-for-TV Asia tour. Maybe thinking kowtowing to a few surfers was good optics. Maybe to curry favor with the richly moneyed interests pursuing a tax-free, gambling-friendly, enclave w/ the Akaka Bill. No matter. It didn't fail
Then she enticed DEMs to take a 3rd swing at their twice defeated Rail quest by promising not to veto it. A vow she kept even though the senior GOP legislator told her the DEMs who sustained Gov. Cayatano's veto were ready to do it again
And in birthing Rail dishonored the Signed No New Tax Pledge she made to get elected
So instead of paying for improvements we can't use, it would be cheaper to buy the Ferry back. Make our investment profitable. Not whine about it being wasted.  Kill Rail. Buy back the Supper Ferry. Replace the remaining politicians responsible