Great facts, Ronin006.
Our politicians should have hired companies from Japan.  They know how to do things right and efficiently.  Unfortunately this project was seen by those in the know as a huge financial windfall where many could get to
wet their beaks at public expense.  As we can see, this has resulted in a disaster of a project which will indeed make Honolulu, the laughing stock of the nation.  It stared with the selection of Ansaldo to build the trains
a company which then  had to declare insolvency even before the first train was built and the selection of Dan Grabauskas of the Massachusetts Bay Transport Authority and the "Big Dig" project in Boston which went from
an estimated build cost of 2.8 billion to 14.6 billion and  9 years late by the time it was finally completed.  Interestingly the consortium involved there was Bechtel, Parsons, and Brinkerhoff who also may have had a 
hand in our rail project.  What a coincidence.