The 2015 Texas A&M Transportations institute’s annual “Urban Mobility Report” found traffic congestion costs Hawaii $616 million in lost time and fuel in 2014. Congestion cost is defined as the value of travel delay and excess fuel consumption. That cost has risen nearly 20% over the past twenty years. Assuming future congestion cost will increase at the same rate and without rail by 2034 Honolulu’s congestion cost will be $734 million a year. In 2014 dollars Honolulu drivers will have wasted $13.5 billion during those twenty years. Inflation and more cars on the road will increase the $13.5 billion exponentially and this does not include the loss in quality of life, urban sprawl taking over the North Shore and Windward Coast agriculture lands because the Oahu General Plan was scraped with the cancellation of rail. This is a better measure of what it will cost to stop rail.