Honolulu is long overdue for a Major Disaster and FEMA is going broke. Honolulu lied about the project not being in a future major disaster zone in order to collect the $1.5 Billion from FTA. HART is actually still hiding a lot of serious issues from the public as they "see how far they can get." 

Placing Billions of public infrastructure funds into widely predicted future disaster areas along the Oahu shoreline is seriously bad policy.  An audit by the Department of Homeland Security said that without better controls, NFIP funds “may be at risk for fraud, waste, abuse, or mismanagement.” The GAO has labeled the program “high risk” http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/film/business-of-disaste

HART Rail Building A Disaster: Can FEMA’s Flood Insurance Program Afford Another Disaster? http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/can-femas-flood-insurance-program-afford-another-disaster/

90% of all disasters in this country involve flooding. Government Accountability Office