"...the report is a recommendation for public-private partnership as a way to draw investor cash to the project"

Nonsense!!! The entire Hawaii government worker pension system (ERS) is losing money because the ERS fund managers failed to invest in the rail. Time for the ERS to invest 100% of the $12-billion dollars the ERS has in cash and mandate indefinite furloughs for all county government workers to help meet the budget overruns.