text: If you say that the rail project should continue as scheduled while the forensic and other studies are done, which will like take 2 years or more, why call for alternative options?  by then, maybe 1/3 of the construction to ala moana will have be expended.  to change the route, system, etc. by then would be entirely foolish, only more money will be needed to implement the reconfigured system.  remember the audits will focus on past costs and action, not future actions which cannot be predicted.  if any malfeasance is uncovered, it would not have any effect of the current route or construction.  All it can do is to prosecute the offenders and seek restitution.   so to say that a forensic audit or other audits will make the project more efficient from an operating standpoint is ludicrous.  to me, the biggest error was when the state only allowed the city a .5% surcharge, when the city wanted a 1%.  if a 1% was granted, much of the financing costs would have  been eliminated.