Rail Transit in Hawaii

Recently, we had the general election and the two races that were of major imporatance to Hawaii had to be the Mayoral and Senator race.  The two candidates for the Mayor's seat was Kirk Cadwell and Ben Cayatano.  I had voted for Ben because he was striving to remove Rail from the development list.  I personally think that rail isn't the right solution to Hawaii's traffic and if you think about it there are a lot of flaws to it.  The one main flaw that I have a problem with is the fact the route of the rail will be forcing people out of their homes and businesses.  People who have probably paid off their homes and businesses that have been there for years.  I think it would be fair to demand that the state pay for a new home for those people.   Another flaw is that the whole state is being forced to pay for a project that will only be available on one island.  Why should people who will never use it be subjected to getting taxed to pay for something they'll never use?  The last flaw I'll point out is the planned route.  Once you're on the rail you can't get off until it stops at UH or wherever the final stop is.  What if some psycho comes on and starts a fight or something? You're stuck with that guy for the rest of the trip.  At least with the bus the driver can kick him out.

Needless to say I was really disappointed when Cayatano didn't get elected and neither did Lingle.