"$29,883 property tax from every property owner (based on 56% home ownership) to fund the initial build-out of the rail plus unknown annual M&A fees justifies the rail for the few it benefits?" Where are you getting this from? Can you you please point out where I can find this charge to property tax? By the way, I am not new here and I have lived on this island all of my life. Where are you from? Are you from Hawaii? Were you raised here. All I am saying is that I'm a proponent of rail. If no rail, then can someone please come up with a solution other than adding more buses. Like I've said before...let's just take one lane of each road and have it dedicated to mass transit. Easy solution, problem solved and we don't have to spend very much money to dedicate those lanes.