There are no miracles that can do it...pig's ear to a silk purse.  I do agree with your post, but...

I am sadden that what you said about what you "thought" to be a wonderful project turned to a pig's ear when the pillars started to go up.  This is the perfect case I alsways to bring up.  that is...

Hawaiiresidents are gullible and too laze to look at the negatives before "wowing" on the supposed positives.  If anyone looked carefully and started to pile up the negatives...cost of maintenance, employees, electricity, visual negative of all those pillars, etc., the rail should have not passed in the first place and a Mayor who opposed it because of the negatives would have been elected instead of Carlisle.

Honoluluans have no one to blame but themselves.

Nuff said!