text: Time to stop beating a dead horse and focus on what the state can do to improve communities around the rail stations. Affordable housing, jobs, quality of life are just a few of the issues which the state can influence if it got off it’s duff. Or we can continue to beat a dead horse and lose opportunities to make real improvements in the urban corridor where up to eighty percent of people and up to seventy percent of Oahu’s jobs will be located.