"They also question whether it’s worth the $250,000 price tag."

That's not much more than HART pays every month for rent in a luxury high-rise office building in downtown Honolulu to house their staff of do-nothing "executives" and their bloated support staff.  This project is billions over budget and we may never know all the terrible decisions that led to this feeding frenzy on struggling local familie's meager savings.  

Money for comic books, BILLIONS over budget, media blitzes, consultants, "virtual train rides," luxury rent, unnecessary trips to Washington DC, and goodness knows what else, and suddenly it's the forensic audit of this rail mess that they decide is too expensive, because Caldwell appointees like Ember Shinn want to bury and cover-up the failings that got us into this mess.   

It's really too bad that Mayor Caldwell was able to gut the city ethics dept and replace everyone with his own appointees.