Bill Boyd, There's no 600,000 people living around the rail line.  It goes mostly through open space, light industrial, commercial, and low density housing.  The agency that did the ridership projection for the Honolulu rail also did it for the San Juan rail.  That one was so far off that fares had to be made free (!) initially in order to get the numbers up.  After years of operation the ridership still hasn't reached the projected number.  The huge unanticipated subsidy that was required contributed to Puerto Rico going broke and being unable to fund certain core functions.

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