text: DDOrange "We could have had the rail up and running 20 years ago, and seen the benefits, if not for one short sighted person."
  
  Actually, it was 4 to 4 and she was the swing vote.  Kinda like the heavily compromised Nestor Garcia who voted to keep this poorly-planned mess alive while in the "employ" of pro-rail contracotrs poised to make fortunes if rail passed.
  
  It's also important to remember that that project also involved a nonsensical route connecting luxury shopping center.  Back then it was from Aloha Tower and ending at Kahala Mall and the big talk today would be how best to tear it down.