IRT "Lack of maintenance leaves us vulnerable":  "Is this the best we can do to maintain Paradise?
The answer is "yes." But the future will fix it all.  The wealthy will migrate to occupy these islands and disenfranchise your kind of locals to Vegas and elsewhere.  Maintenance will be met for pristine urban living, more Punahou schools, more doctors, beautiful roads for their Ferrari and their kids' BMWs.  Don't worry, whatever the future of taxes, rents, and home prices, Hawaii's future will be well.
Wasn't that what had been told to the diseased, disappearing native Hawaiians by the 1821 missionary who had imported the realities of land titles, Castle & Cooke, American Factors, First Hawaiian Bank, Theo Davies, Alexander & Baldwin, C. Brewer, Dillingham Transportation?   So, why today's whining today over Rail, big-box discount stores, big land development, loss of ag lands, high taxes, and health care?  The native population was expendable as is their 'Aina today. So what's new?