your statements are false about not informing the people of Honolulu about the various costs, etc.  the anti=s from the start have raised false questions about these topics repeatedly but the reasonable people of Honolulu continued to support rail.  you anti's are raising questions that cannot be answered until rail is fully operational.  no one can predict the future, but you deal with the issues and they arise.  so to say now that there are too many unanswered questions is ludicrous.  operational and maintenance costs may be high, then it is the city's problem to see how to deal with them an make the fare affordable to those who use it.  if it requires a tax increase, then so be it.  all public transportations systems are subsidized, some more than others.  many cities and countries have trains and many of them are successful, to condemn our rail system before completed is silly.