1. The project has only received around $650 Million, not 1.5 Billion.
2. The PMOC RSD says rail won't be earning money until at least 2025
but more likely 10-12 years later. 
3. Only 50% of the project has been built according to the PMOC.
4. The original alternative route was already approved in the EIS so a new SEIS would likely only take a year.
5. Aloha Stadium is the best stopping point for many good reasons.
6. FTA should be brought to Honolulu to directly inform and explain to the public.
7. FTA once had a 1/3 share, now only 15%.
8. A Forever Rail Tax is creating no accountability and no fiduciary responsibility.
9. Rail is becoming Hawaii's Military-Industrial Complex to spend endless money.
10. Downtown construction will be a disaster with SLR, Tsunami, Hurricane
flooding, drilling on an ancient reef with subsurface streams and rivers.
11. FTA administrator left for a job with AECOM and with a new Trump administration the FTA may have a totally NEW position now.