“Every rail system in the world cost twice the original price. Get over it.” Larry Meacham, Wahiawa

Mr Meacham,
It is certainly telling that rail cheerleaders like yourself now admit that our politicians were lying to us in the run up to this rail mess.

Taxpayers were charged many millions for PR and advertising firm to sell us that “the financial plan is strong” and “the contingency fund will ensure any and cost cost overruns are paid for” and “the temporary rail tax will expire leaving rail paid for and debt free.”  Surely you remember that years long media blitz of rail lies. 

So even you now admit it was all a bunch of lies?  I wish you had been as vocal about calling them out when it was going on, instead of being complicit in this corporate welfare for plugged in insiders and theft of public resources. We might have had something useful instead of this mall train to a developer’s land scheme that avoids the very communities it was promised to serve.