This impresses me as someone chasing Federal funds and trying to PoC maglev in the US, not a solution to any real problem. >'A maglev train may help ease traff

This impresses me as someone chasing Federal funds and trying to PoC maglev in the US, not a solution to any real problem. >'A maglev train may help ease traffic that has made roads in Maryland’s Montgomery County, which lies between Washington and Baltimore, the fourth-most-congested in the country, according to digital-mapping company TomTom NV. (TOM2) Washington ranks seventh.' Not really. Prince Georges, Anne Arundel and Howard lie between Baltimore and DC, hence the existing MARC lines running through them [1]. Any new lines would undoubtedly follow those paths. It's not DC <-> Baltimore that's miserable it's Northern VA <-> North / East DC suburbs. Transit in the DC area is built around bringing people in and out of DC, not from suburb to suburb. People who don't take MARC for the DC <-> Baltimore now aren't doing it for time, they're doing it because they don't want to ride the MARC, deal with the bottleneck of Union Station then ride two Metro trains and a bus to get to work in VA. Swapping MARC for Maglev won't change that, but it will cost a lot of money. Improving the existing infrastructure and/or figuring out how to draw more business into DC proper would be a better use of any funds. 1: http://mta.maryland.gov/sites/default/files/MARCsystemmap.JPG http://mta.maryland.gov/sites/default/files/MARCsystemmap.JP...