I don’t know if I’ll ever understand the “justification” for turning our prime ag land into a development.  Here’s what former DOT director Morioka had said in written testimony about Hoopili:  

“Even with all assumed mitigation measures, however, the H-1 freeway will quickly degrade to LOS F due to the direct impacts of the Hoopili project under the most likely projections.  Even under the best case scenario, which includes an optimistic rail transit operation, the H-1 freeway would operate at LOS E with the Hoopili project.”

LOS = level of service.  LOS F = gridlock.