Thomas, thank you for your question. Lets start by just looking at some of the comments that have been written here on this article. I hear that some want to criminally prosecute individuals for this overspend. I hear others talking, again about converting the line already built into a line that is used by busses, rather than rail cars. I hear even more about how this whole thing is just a "disaster" without really defining what a disaster is for this place. 

I am sorry, but these are considered, to me, jingoistic soundbites trying to rile up the less-than-informed reader to anger, without even giving the person a chance to really look at what we have now with an intelligent analysis. I am tired of hearing that the solution to problems in this state is to just kill it off (superferry, TMT, for instance) or prosecute the managers (like rail) without a true think-out about what these statements really mean. People in Hawaii, I know, are smarter, and should think this out more.