Regardless the viability of the rail project, everyone should agree that the city administration, having promised originally "on time and on budget", and then "we won't be back to the legislature again", has now shown they simply are in over their heads, again. Either the state government takes responsibility for the project, or they need to cut off the additional revenue and let the city own up to its problem. 

To me, the real long term problem is that the city has no viable plan for operating the train; the only thing worse than not completing the project would be to build it and then have it sit idle because we can't afford to run it on current revenues, or that hundreds of millions of additional dollars would continued to be drained from the local economy to run a train that only a small number of people will eventually use.

Isn't it overdue to question the technology, route, operations, and ridership assumptions along with the cost of this project?