think about it Ruben, does HART have enough funding now to finish the rail project at Ala Moana Center on hand?  No, they do not.  Does the City council have enough finances on hand to be able to assist HART in doing so?  Again the answer is no, so they are looking to "milk the Golden Goose" that is the O'ahu tax payer by raising fee's, taxes and other means to generate some cash to toss into the financial black hole that Rail has become.  

Face facts already, Ruben; O'ahu has had a transportation problem for more than 40+ years, and it's only gotten worse, instead of being fixed; as rail would not have made much of a dent in the daily traffic mess on the Freeway's in the morning and afternoons! Alleviating traffic congestion, while moving people quickly from one point to another, was one of thebiggest fallacies told to date.  Now it's a lose - lose situation; build it and lose money, or tear it down and lose even more money........

Think about it.