BALONEY!  Wait a sec, now who always says that?  Anyway, your comment underlies the real problem regarding traffic.  Instead of DEVELOPING the urban core which is already OVER developed, we need to spread it out closer to where most of our people now live, on the west side!  Our problem is that too much of business and other entities are in Honolulu proper, but there is no affordable housing there, so people need to live out west where it is cheaper, then drive into Honolulu to work.  If we can spread out more businesses and governmental offices west, them more people can stay there and thus, less traffic going into town.  Plus, as I always suggest, if we develop UH-West Oahu into a university comparable to UH-Manoa, we can keep west students out west instead of having them drive to Manoa every day.  University students are the crux of the problem as far as traffic is concerned.  All of us who live out west know that traffic is OK when UH is not in session.  Cheaper solution than rail!