Pro-rail is anti-Transportation.  
It is amazing that rail proponents do not recognize nor see that  this train they all are so obsessed only transports people.
Yes, people and only people who take public transit to the exclusion of private, commercial, emergency and military transportation.

But this particular elevated guide-way could serve the entire public,  private, commerce, emergency and military transportation if  converted into a one-direction 2-lane reversible high occupancy highway.

Another thing.  Street traffic congestion in downtown Honolulu and streets along the route of the elevated guide-way only exists simply because this island is still stuck in the 20th Century.  

Yes. This island is stuck in the 20th Century while other states have moved into the new century with respect to Street Traffic Congestion Relief.