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| wonderingalice
Sat 6/7/2008 5:56a | From today's Las Vegas Review-Journal:
Bush signs bill funding MagLev train project
Plans for a levitating train from Las Vegas to Disneyland can move forward under a transportation bill signed by President Bush on Friday that frees up $45 million for the futuristic project.
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 United States.
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.
Funding had been delayed by a drafting error in Congress' 2005 highway bill, which was corrected by the legislation signed Friday by Bush.
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., praised passage of the law, saying the MagLev project "will safely and efficiently move people between Southern California and Las Vegas."
Woo hoo! Let's rock 'n roll and make it happen! |
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| dsnykid
Sat 6/7/2008 6:22a | Kewl... hope it actually does happen because we try to do both each trip. |
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| wonderingalice
Sat 6/7/2008 6:46a | With gas prices and the hassles associated with flying... We'd definitely take this train - as would MANY people, me thinks! :-) |
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| amazedncal2
Sat 6/7/2008 7:42a | WHAT? We are so there! What could be better? We'd be driving to Disneyland for our first stop and I tend to over pack for those trips. Hmmm, wonder how much luggage I can take on the MagLev?
By the time it's built I'll probably just be bringing my walker, Depends and my denture paste but I'll still be so there!
wonderingalice, thanks for the post! It will truly be a VERY COOL thing and they really should make it happen. I hope it's successful and many more are built between largely traveled areas. |
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| mawnck
Sat 6/7/2008 7:59a | We could use a few dozen of those in Southern California. Isn't magnetic levitation what the Peoplemover at WDW uses? |
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| monorailblue
Sat 6/7/2008 8:18a | "Environmental studies" for the "first leg". Woo-hoo. Get the streamers and noise makers out.
How many legs are there? What about the cost of actually, you know, designing and building and operating it? Oh, yeah. None of that anywhere in sight.
Don't hold your breath on this one. That $45 million probably couldn't even rebuild the Disneyland Monorail. It is so little funding as to be considered nothing at all. |
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| YensidWED101
Sat 6/7/2008 8:34a | I tried to look for it on the LV review journal... I can't find it, maybe can any of you set a hyperlink for ppl who can't find it :) |
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| YensidWED101
Sat 6/7/2008 8:49a | RE: POST 5
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| RoadTrip
Sat 6/7/2008 9:14a | <<We could use a few dozen of those in Southern California. Isn't magnetic levitation what the Peoplemover at WDW uses?>>
The Peoplemover at WDW uses linear induction. I believe it is a similar process, except with linear induction the vehicle never rises above the track like it does with mag-lev.
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| wonderingalice
Sat 6/7/2008 9:53a | http://www.lvrj.com/news/19627414.html
Didn't post the link because I posted the entire item. :-) |
