If rail were a State project, you might have a point, but the state was frozen out of all the planning and organization.  When Gov Lingle presented a financial EIS that predicted this mess  and how it would get dumped on the state, she was loudly criticised for interfering in a CITY project. (and her accurate financial EIS cost only a tiny fraction of the amount that the CIty spent to produce their laughably inaccurate financial plan!) 

If the CIty of Honolulu wanted a State managed train, then that's what they should have planned.  As it stands, they have lost billions, with billions more to go, and they are STILL stonewalling on allowing a forensic audit.  

If you want to make this a State project, then go through the process as though it were.  You just can't say "oops I have no idea what I'm doing but I sure do like spending money, so let's stick Maui, Kauai, Lanai, Molokai, and Lanai with the bill for almost ten years of poor management and no leadership.