Interesting.  I thought the pro heavy rail folks such as yourself were dead set against light rail at street level.  

"Unfortunately rockysan adding buses to already congested surface street solves nothing. -Roy Kamisato".  

At $1.4 billion for the initial 20 miles, their streetcar-like light rail was at least 86% cheaper than ours.  Even their extension will be 80% cheaper than our cost per mile.  Too bad for us - the Feds share ($1.55b) would have paid off our rail and left us $150m for expenses.

I wasn't necessarily against rail when they were claiming 34 miles INCLUDING UH for $2.7b, although I was sure the rail surcharge would be permanent.  When they dropped UH, I knew we had been duped.  If it's about traffic, why did they just drop the single largest contributor on the island?  I hope future generations get good use out of it, because I think they will be paying off construction costs long after I'm gone.