He is going to tell you about double decking the highway, putting HOV lanes on there so that city buses can drive on it or high occupancy vehicles. If past is prologue on this question, there will also be some sort of BRT-type system that Jeremy Harris tried to build, promoted. 

At the end, any alternative to the rail  (which is a pretty straight forward idea of building new transit infrastructure to run a train on a line) is going to feel like band-aid and jury rigged transportation solutions compared to it. Frankly anything that looks less than a full new build like the rail is, will be just that. 

And then in 10 years after it is all done, we'll be back arguing again about the rail, of which the Federal Government won't even want to be at the table, let alone sanction with statements like this. In fact I am wondering if the FTA is already regretting even giving Honolulu another shot at federal money, considering.