One way to stop the insanity on financing and the turning of rail from $3 billion to over $10 billion and mind you still counting is - to eliminate the rail system project and convert and reclassify it into a BRT system project.  Reclassification into a BRT project most probably retains FTA funding because FTA also funds elevated BRT projects. 
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Make the elevated guide-way as a reversible 2-lane High Occupancy Toll with exit and entry points to be selected later.  It would allow commuting to bypass congestion on the H-1 not only by buses but also by private, commercial, emergency, and military vehicles. Which would in some way relieve pressure on the H-1.  
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Converting and reclassifying the project as a BRT project  avoids monster expenses for a new electrical plant, cost of operating the rail system,  likely union labor problems, and HART whose BOD bureaucrats could later expand the rail system and burden the populace with more taxes.
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