text: So why is the State legislature having a special session to RAISE taxes to help pay for the $20 BILLION Oahu train to nowhere?  The city just took out $350 million in bonds to help pay for the rail project and including paying for the bond interest, like the Hawaii convention center was paid by taking out bonds, that $350 million is actually about $760 in total cost to Hawaii taxpayers.  Therefore an initial cost of $10 billion for the rail project just from Hoopili to the Ala Moana center rail station is in actuality an eventual $20 billion cost.  Add 3 people have already died running their car into a rail track column, not only because of speeding, but also becasue these oversized rail columns are way too close to roadways.  Oahu, especially in downtown Honolulu, lack the space to accommomdate these large rail columns for a train that is oversized because it is using an obsolete, inappropriate train technology used to transport goods like coal and lumber across cites and states.