RE:  "Like other cities, Honolulu needs rail."  Like other cities, Honolulu needs a professional sports franchise, a thriving symphonic orchestra, a reasonable cost of living, but it doesn't because it doesn't have a population and tax base to support them and it has a overbearing tax structure  with monopolistic utilities and transportation systems.  We are not like "other cities" because not enough people commute to downtown like the Washington, D.C. or Portland, Oregon cities.  We need improved transportation systems, not an over-priced, poorly designed and executed rail system!