Lots of finger pointing as Honolulu rail runs out of money

Susan Galicha can see Honolulu’s rail cars being tested on elevated tracks just minutes from her home. The rail line — one of the nation’s most expensive per capita — may have to end a long way from both downtown and the hotel district in a nondescript light industrial area featuring a bus depot and a highway interchange. The latest cost estimate for the 20-mile (32-kilometer) rail line is $9.1 billion — nearly double the $5.5 billion budgeted at the time of the project's 2011 groundbreaking.

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