Here is another factor to the question of whether to just kill the project and bulldoze what has been constructed and put Car No. 1 in to Bishop Museum with the title "what if?"
Should HART surprise all of us and say "yup, we have no other choice but cease the project", is the City, and it's residents, ready to stomach a double whammy: That of cratering land prices that lowers property tax revenue for the city (great for residents, but horrible for investors who will sell their shares at fireside prices, like it happened the last time we killed rail) and then how to pay for all the expenses that would be related to both shutting down the project and how to pay off all the lawsuits that come from it?
With that, and not mentioned here, is the fact that the legislature will waste no time at all to come back into session and yank the surcharge authority the minute HART says "we're done".
Or, are we all still in such a jingoistic soundbite mode that does not allow for a true think-out.