Comments on: Plans For U.S. Levitating Train Get Boost

The Proposed MagLev Train Would Get Passengers From L.A. To Vegas In Under 2 Hours

[closethippy1]

"Levitating train"? Is that like a train where passengers practice meditation or something like that?

[rajska]

Mag-Lev is an excellent idea. Mag-Lev routes should replace our Interstate highways. Initially they should replace I-10, I-95 and I-5. Instead of planes and cars, we should be using Mag-lev mass transportation system. Then we become less dependent with OPEC oil.

[cbsguest6]

I hope more projects of this kind are researched and approved. I would like to see a line go from Chicago to L.A. or D.C. to Seattle. I think this could be a great alternative for travel.

[barbaraf4]

This is not mass transit. It is a boost to the LV economy, which is currently tanking, like every other US business. Disneyland might get a boost, but I am going to suggest the destination is LV - just park your car at Disneyland.

[nyteryder2]

What a waste!!

I''d settle for ANY public transportation that could carry me the 17 miles to work in the same amount of time that the MagLev can travel from LA to LV.

[hissteps4u]

Just another way to waste our Money VOTE THE BUMS OUT

[tryhonesty]

I like the idea of some forward thinking. However, I hope the same people that were involved the monorail system here in Vegas, have nothing to do with this project. The "MonoFAIL" as many of us locals have called it, was poorly planned and excuted. The monorail should haved been built down the middle of the Strip, not built in the "back ally" of the strip, suffering low ridership and many other problems, that would not have existed if built down the middle of the "strip" where people want to be and have maximum access and utility to all locations. It would have been more difficult, but great results always involve, the hard, and right choices. Howard Hughes had the vision in the 1950''s to build a direct, high speed train between LA and Vegas. It is time to build some forward thinking infrastructure in this country that would create excellent jobs and would result in excellent results for future generations. Lets get to work!

[justonevoice-2009]

I guess this is a start on proving maglev is viable.
The route though, come on, Disneyland Las Vegas?
$45 mil as the first leg, just environmental studies.
How about a more improtant route so people can get to work?
I thought this was a joke. It''s infuriating this kind of money is apporopriated for fantasy vacations.
One has to wonder what we look like to the rest of the world with projects like this.

[hbevis]

I AM GLAD TO SEE THAT THERE ARE SOME MORE PEOPLE THAT FEEL AS I DO ABOUT MASS TRANSIT...
GOOD FOR YOU PEOPLE...
IF ENOUGH PEOPLE GET BEHIND SOMETHING IT HAS A CHANCE OF COMING TO LIFE...

[noaanhc]

haoli25

You cannot yet say it will never happen because it hasnt been tried here yet.Mass transit is a great success in Europe and can be a success here too.

[rudy654-2009]

We need a transportation makeover in this country. The oil industry made sure we would be gas dependent, and now they are knocking us around. We need bullet trains that criss cross this country as they do in Europe. In Switzerland they are building a tunnel system that will make the oil companies obsolete when it is complete. It''s time to bring back mass transportation and kick big oil right in the ribs.

[hbevis]

I HOPE THAT IT DOES HAPPEN FOR A NUMBER OF REASONS.
WE NEED TO GO BACK TO MASS TRANSIT LIKE WE HAD MANY YEARS AGO. AND THIS TRAIN WOULD GET A PERSON TO THEIR DESTINATION 3 OR 4 TIMES QUICKER THAN A CAR, BUS, ETC.
FROM WORKING IN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT FOR 40 YEARS, I HAVE SEEN MANY THINGS COME TO BE BECAUSE OF SOME, SO CALLED FAR OUT THOUGHT.

[haoli25]

Will never happen.