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Legislators attending a briefing Monday appeared more favorable to tapping hotel tax money to help pay for the $10 billion rail line.

With a special session set for the end of August, the Hawaii Legislature will lay out several funding options for the public at a briefing next week.

As the project alters the Honolulu landscape, it will illustrate local history on embossed guideway columns and inside stations.

Andrew Robbins will take over as the city and state struggle to fully fund the 20-mile project, which has an estimated $3 billion shortfall.

Salvage the Rail proposes ditching the over-budget elevated railway plan in much of the city.

Supporters and opponents of the over-budget project fill Honolulu Hale to testify before the vote.

Hawaii lawmakers will convene for a week to figure out how to fund the rest of Honolulu’s over-budget project.

Critics say one of the options to pay for the over-budget Honolulu rail project — extending the general excise tax — would unfairly burden the poor.

With some owners reporting a sharp decline in customers, the Honolulu City Council has set aside $2 million for property tax relief for struggling businesses.

Developers can build higher and denser as long as the city finds that their projects promote “transit-enhanced neighborhoods.”