Officials chasing federal money to onstruct a high-speed, magnetically propelled train between Las Vegas and Anaheim, California, say powerful friends in Congress are keeping their bid alive.
"The Transportation Department earlier this year chose two routes from seven proposals for further study: one in the Pittsburgh area and one between Washington and Baltimore. But officials have not yet selected a final route to award $950 million and the five other groups are still hoping to land the money. The flat, straight desert route of the California-Nevada proposal is still the best bargain and best suited for immediate construction, said Neil Cummings, president of the American Magline Group, a consortium of companies intent on completing the project. Cummings was scheduled to appear today at a House hearing on the magnetic levitation, or maglev, train technology."
Thanks to Christian Peralta
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