You're comparing apples (The Big Apple) to bananas (Banana Republic of HI)! LOL

NYC's population is 3+ million and NY state at 8.5+ million and the multiple rail lines actually go from where people live to the business district where they work.
 
Here, in the Banana Republic on Honolulu, the world's most expensive choo-choo will serve less than 10% of Oahu's population. So out of the 950k+ residents, we have 95k potential commuters and that number dwindles to even more anemic numbers because we all know the route will never hit the business districts or any major University but only a mall where only tourists staying in Waikiki shop! LOL

I personally would love it if Honolulu had a nice rail network like in Tokyo but the clowns in charge are corrupt by trying to tax us to death for a single rail route that should have only cost about a $2-billion dollars like in other cities. Instead we have a $14-billion dollar runaway boondoggle, no power plant or estimation of completion!