Please tell me you're kidding.

"By city estimates, 116,300 people will ride trains along a proposed $5.5 billion Honolulu rail project"

The same people who gave us the laughably optimistic 5.5 billion cost estimate also gave us the 116,300 daily ridership projection.  What makes you think that ridership projections are based remotely on reality any more than the shockingly wrong cost estimates year after year?  

Even today, no one is willing to state the final cost of this mess, and those ridership projections were based on the equally wrong assumption of the rail starting service 5-10 years sooner.   

Why would you believe anything out of HART, especially a 7 year old ridership projection?