Exactly! ALL of the HART rail ridership numbers are TOTALLY MADE UP! They were made up by Parsons Brinkerhoff using numbers with SIX TIMES the regional population of the Island of Oahu..
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The only other place Parsons Brinkerhoff made such totally WRONG and BOGUS numbers was for the railway they engineered in Puerto Rico was has proven to be a FAILURE in projected ridership numbers.
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The TRUTH is, ALL of the Honolulu rail ridership numbers are totally BS and just GUESSWORK based on other rail systems with much larger demographics. They were all done 20 years ago when the FTA was pushing railways for every city, all backed by a big railway lobby. 
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Nearly ALL such municipal railways have FAILED to produce sustaining ridership numbers and are all heavily financed by major taxes and fees. Honolulu HART will be 10 times WORSE because of high construction costs and sky-high operational costs. HART rail will produce the largest annual electric bill in Hawaii's history.