Project is way over budget and is trying to increase tax revenues while the project itself is shrinking the tax base via these impacted businesses.

This is exactly what happens when you have group of politicians ignoring engineers and opting for the most expensive and least flexible mode of transit.  Central planning at its finest.  

Prediction:  If the 20 mile stretch ever becomes fully operational, it will never achieve the usage statistics predicted by the politicians, and it will never make money thus requiring operating funding in perpetuity.

Mufi Hannemann, Neil Abercrombie, Kirk Caldwell, Peter Carlisle and the legion of other pro-rail champions owe every Oahu resident an apology.  But what are the chances of anyone trotting out their names when inevitable time comes?