Live long enough, and, you will observe Hawai'i politics, that never really changes.  The hidden political machine, is still in place, and only the faces change.

The newly elected ruling elite, always say, that they have Hawaii's best interests at heart.  Once in office, they revert to the preexisting political culture, and mostly everything, goes back to status quo.  Go along, to get along.

The RAIL, was doomed from the time, it was on the drawing board.  The politicians should have remembered, the Pearlridge Mall's RAIL.  Then, it should have remembered the old TRAIN system, that existed during the plantation era.

Old was better and new was a Kindergarten dream.