Sounds to me like if any body got the shaft, it was the average working person in our  Republica
Bananera who will have to continue to pay for Linda Lingle's folly to the tune of  more than $71 million dollars.
What should have been a fairly successful ferry project was botched from the very beginning
starting with having to build the docking ramps because the ferry design did not have a docking ramp
as part of the ship, then there was the failure to do a proper EIS which resulted in costly litigation
and then the silly insistence that the ferry had to go to Kauai where the opposition to it was the
most virulent, as well as having to upgrade the harbors so the ferry could dock. Every which way you
turned, it was poor decision making by Lingle and the State DOT.  
I fear that the City's rail project is going to go the way of the failed ferry.  Just as the State did, the
City has begun selling bonds to help finance the project.  The rail project like the ferry is doomed
to fail.