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People should be more concerned about the doubling of deaths from influenza and pneumonia.

Recent studies on death rates suggest decision makers have hard calls awaiting them.

Nobody has confidence in estimates of the project’s expense, which may be as much as $13 billion.

It’s dumb to ditch a half-built rail project after spending $4 billion. It’s even dumber to spend another $6 billion to $9 billion for slight traffic improvement and serious environmental harm.

Beyond  exorbitant costs, we should stop rail now because it will be obsolete. By 2040, the answer to traffic woes will lie in ride-sharing services, driverless cars and other technology.

The city is no better at estimating ridership than it is at estimating costs.

The FTA failed miserably to provide effective oversight for the rail project. That makes it complicit, not just morally but legally.

The Legislature could halt the project by repealing the tax surcharge funding it, which would give the Honolulu City Council a tough choice.

The authors argue Sen. Brian Schatz should get rid of his Chief of Staff Andy Winer, who was a political operative in the successful PRP campaign against Ben Cayetano.