Mr. Anderson. in response to your comments specifically,  I would say comparing Denver and Oahu might be too much of an incompatible "apples and oranges" comparison.  Just because something appears to have worked somewhere on the mainland--in the past or present-- does not mean it can and should work here, especially in the future.  

I would also refer to my previous comments in this thread, which point out ways in which I think "conventional" thinking about mass transit tends to be too backward-looking, and to the extent it does look forward, I think much of it tends to simply project past assumptions and expectations into the future without truly assessing what has changed, and what might further change, that would make the past assumptions increasingly less relevant in a wider range of plausible future scenarios.  Aloha:)