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Transportation Bill Sets Aside $45 Million For MagLev Train
tbischel tips us to news that the MagLev train project which would run from Las Vegas to Disneyland has received approval for $45 million in funding. The project has been in the planning stages for quite some time, and it was delayed further by a drafting error in a 2005 highway bill.
"Derided by critics as pie in the sky, the train would use magnetic levitation technology to carry passengers from Disneyland to Las Vegas in well under two hours, traveling at speeds of up to 300 mph. It would be the first MagLev system in the U.S. The money is the largest cash infusion in the project's nearly 20-year history. It will pay for environmental studies for the first leg of the project."
Did I read that right? Forty-five million dollars to carry out the STUDY for the first leg of the project? If this train were to be built by a business, rather than a government, $45M would get the whole darn thing built and operational!
McCain/Palin '08. Now THAT's hope and change!
When it's done, the TOP SPEED will be 65MPH I'm guessing.
Allowing real high speed trains in the US is a threat to our dependence on foreign oil, and the foreign lobbyists simply won't ALLOW it. At some point there will be no wide open spaces left for these trains, and then the public (nimbys) will be against trains on their own, without opposition from Big Oil.
Allowing real high speed trains in the US is a threat to our dependence on foreign oil, and the foreign lobbyists simply won't ALLOW it. At some point there will be no wide open spaces left for these trains, and then the public (nimbys) will be against trains on their own, without opposition from Big Oil.
So how does that explain the hundreds of mile long trains that criss cross the USA hauling freight, every day? 90% of all freight is shipped by rail in the USA. Guess your conspiracy didn't quite work out, huh.
This is my sig.
Exactly the mindset problem with americans.