"Lynn Elisala, who owned Kristen’s Kitchen and four related lunch wagons, said she’s hoping the fund will help her family pay off some of the debts incurred when they were forced to shut down after even diehard customers stopped coming because of the inconvenience caused by rail construction."

Remember when people like wiliki were posting incessantly about how the "multiplier effect" from the "10,000 jobs created by HART" (that never happened, and turned into flying in mainlanders instead) were going to provide a huge a huge financial windfall to small businesses near rail construction?  Because I do.  

Instead, rail cheerleaders like Mayor Caldwell, who was there from the very beginning with Mufi Hannemann, have taken struggling families' meager savings and redirected them to giant multinational corporations, favored construction interests, and big developers while bankrupting small local businesses.

It is way past time to pull the plug on this mess.