How utterly blind can the City Council really be on this rail issue?  The Rail project has always been in the hands of the City administration and the state legislatures latest attempts at trying to help the City deal with it's rail problems has turned the City's project into something it should never have become, a state wide problem!

What's worse is after all that wrangling by the legislature, the City will still fall short of being able to cover the final costs of the rail construction project, as their own projections show a shortfall of about $54 million.  

"“We anticipated there would be some kind of a shortfall, we’d been talking about it,” Manahan said. “We didn’t know how much it would be. It is what it is, I guess.”"  This sentence tells me, that for all the city's vaunte planning, they still did not do their due diligence in planning out the rail project and the taxpayers of Honolulu are gonig to be on the hook for it, again!  What an unfunny joke, this has turned to to be