I thank the three or four people who commented on my post for refreshing my memory. The Kaleikini lawsuit was indeed a key factor in the construction delays. But it was not the only factor, as noted by former Star-Bulletin editorial writer Carl Zimmerman in his Star-Advertiser letter to the editor on September 23, 2015: http://www.staradvertiser.com/2015/09/23/editorial/letters/lawsuit-raised-the-cost-of-rail-2/. 
He also cited the lawsuit filed by the Gang of Four (I originated the term for Cliff Slater and his trio of true believers) for escalating rail's costs. So to be clear, every lawsuit that delayed construction added to the project's costs -- the well-reasoned ones, like Paulette Kaleikini's, and the ill-conceived one by "Always by Car" Slater, former Governor Ben Cayetano, UH's expert on everything (but not transit) Randy Roth and former Judge Walter Heen. Their rhetoric and misinformation about rail and what it will accomplish added nothing of value to the debate.