Stick this in your eye Tuba, from the Star Advertiser report:

"Since late 2014 rail leaders have repeatedly pointed to the island’s surging construction market — and particularly national data from the firm Ryder Levett Bucknall that show Honolulu as one of the hottest such markets in the U.S. — to explain the project’s skyrocketing cost. Nonetheless, the peer review report found that “previous contracting decisions” also had “a significant impact on claims, budget and schedule.”

Similarly, in their report from April, staff with the Honolulu city auditor’s office “found deficiencies related to HART’s cost controls that, in our opinion, partly contributed to the significant cost increases.” The agency could have taken “a more proactive approach in implementing cost-control measures,” the city auditor found."