3)...given Hawaii has the highest electrical rates in the nation.
4) The more bonds taken out the more interest Hawaii taxpayers have to pay back.  The City council took out a $350 million in bonds as a stopgap measure and with bond interest that comes out to over $700 million owed by taxpayers.  The Hawaii Convention center cost $350 million paid with bonds and the actual cost to taxpayers with bond interest was over $760 MILLION.  A $10 billion rail price tag means actual rail cost will be closer to $20 BILLION.
5) Even if rail is completed from Hoopili to Ala Moana ctr.  it will make Oahu commuter traffic worse because it is the University & private school commuting crowd (students, teachers, support staff, etc.) that causes gridlock traffic on Oahu & after wasting precious time and BILLIONS, Oahu will have to do what the State has put off and that is improve the know bottlenecks in Oahu such as the H1/H2 merge, the H1 stadium cuttoff, H1 Middlestreet merge AND....