Let me explain as simply as I  can, so you can understand. Not everyone will want to use rail and there will always be people who will want or need to use cars. Take a sales representative who is on the road all day. Rail is an alternative for people who can leave the car at home until they get home and avoid sitting in traffic for hours. As for jobs, if someone is making $80,000 or $100,000 a year in town and you think it's easy to find a job like that anywhere else on Oahu? It's okay for someone making minimum wage or possibly mid range wage, but for the professionals it's not a realistic option. You make it sound like it's no problem when it is a problem. Don't you think that everyone would want to work closer to where they live if they could? Of course. It just makes sense that if you only have to travel 15 minutes for a job versus driving one or more hours you would take the job closer to home, if everything was equal.