Opposition against the City's $9+ billion rail project is growing. The Hawaii State Supreme Court has ruled that the City is building the rail without doing a full archeological survey to map ancient burials. The result of this ruling has temporarily stopped rail construction.
A federal court case against the project is pending judgement. Former Governor Ben Cayetano, a longtime rail opponent won the recent Honolulu Primary election for mayor and is on the general election ballot this coming November. If he wins, rail will stop. The Federal Court case may also put a stop to rail. We'll see.
Yesterday (August 31) about 150 opponents of rail showed up in front of Honolulu Hale to protest the rail. There were speeches, sign waving and chants of "stop rail now". This train must stop. It is insane to continue. Attendance was good since there was only short notice about this rally promoted mainly through social media sites and email.
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