Maglev Loses $45 Million
Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has promised on Wednesday to redirect US $ 45 million originally set aside for the maglev project between Los Angeles and Las Vegas to develop the Interstate 215 connector to McCarran International Airport. Reid who was originally a supporter of the maglev train, switched alliances to the steel-wheeled, Victorville-bound DesertXpress project after getting frustrated with the slow progress of maglev.
This was included in the jobs bill presented to President Obama telling that this step is to put the struggling work force to work immediately and to widen the highway, easing the traffic congestion.
However Governor Jim Gibbons, chairman of the State Transportation Department and maglev supporter has strongly opposed Reid’s idea to redirect the funding. But the State transportation department officials said they did not specifically request money to be diverted from the maglev project, but were happy that the funds would go to a road project.
REASONS FOR MAGLEV LOSING ITS FUNDING:
$45 million was only going to go to lobbyists, out of town consultants and investment bankers and COULD NOT BE USED FOR CONSTRUCTION. Even if it could have been used for construction, which it could not, that would have paid for about one quarter to one half of a mile – based upon maglev cost estimates prepared by three different public agencies in this country
Congress actually shifted those funds to a real project in Las Vegas that will immediately get people to work
The maglev project was only going to extend 40 miles to Primm – it was not going to be environmentally cleared for construction beyond that point even if they had gotten the $45 million
They have no money to build it to Anaheim let alone to Primm
The major reason they did not ever receive the $45 million is that they never came up with the required 20% local matching funds – they tried to convince the Federal Railroad Administration to allow them to use “in-kind services” as the local match, not real private money – which they never committed
They were always many years away from being able to build anything even if they could have come up with the untold billions of dollars needed for it
The DesertXpress project will be able to start this year without any public grants – 200 miles to Victorville and soon thereafter another 50 miles to Palmdale
Just the first phase of DX creates approximately 50,000 years of construction employment, reaching about 20,000 workers at the peak of construction
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