Ha! The City Council and Mayor expect the Legislature and Governor to BAIL THEM OUT of the rail fiasco where they have done NOTHING to cut costs and an honest Plan B to work within the budget they have.
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People everywhere are finally figuring out this is a useless $500 million a mile land development fraud to make a few insiders rich at the expense of a regressive tax on the lowest income Oahu tax payers. The traffic mitigation "benefit" is less than 2%!
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Read Rep. Thielen's great article:  Bring The Honolulu Rail Project Back To Planet Earth
http://www.civilbeat.org/2017/05/bring-the-honolulu-rail-project-back-to-planet-earth/
Caldwell pitches the “too-big-to-fail” argument from Wall Street bankers and demanded yet another bailout from Hawaii taxpayers. It's about saving Caldwell's political career.