"Opponents said later in the day that they do not intend to ask a judge to stop construction. They say they've received a promise from the city that if their lawsuit against the project prevails, any work undertaken between now and then will be torn down."

Tear it down? The hell you say.

Leave it as a monument to the idiots that want pure gridlock (as though the traffic around HNL is any easy gem).

Tear it down...such bull.

...but I don't think there's any stopping it. The city is kinda taking a shot in the dark and we'll have to wait and see if it actually reduces gridlock.

But it appears it is going through as currently planned.

I don't see it helping traffic very much

I think if there was a spur to UH it would make more sense, but absent that it kinda just meanders between two places no one goes in between Ala Moana and Kapolei.

I think they would have been better off spending all this time fixing the roads to create more efficient routes into and out of the urban core. I think of a number of places where some improvements could diffuse traffic patterns. I also think bus service could definitely be improved. Doing those two things would more directly broach the problem the train is trying to address without the boondoggle aspect.

"to start building the foundations and pillars along the first segment of the route"

Its too bad that they opted for steel on steel, mag-lev should have been the only choice. I wonder if there is still time?