(MI) Detroit Free Press – A proposed magnetic railway along I-96 to Lansing and Ann Arbor would be faster and safer for passengers than a high-speed rail that uses existing tracks, a legislative tatask force was told Monday.
In fact, the federal government should focus more on building a technologically advanced high-speed passenger rail system along interstate highways, rather than upgrading tracks owned and used by freight rail companies, said Steve Purchase, a spokesman for H Inc., a Lansing urban development firm that is not affiliated with the proposed project. More
This sounds all well and good with private funds building the system – but with the exception of Ann Arbor, all of the cities it connects have deficient or virtually non-existent public transportation. What good does a maglev into Detroit do visitors if there is no mass-transit system to take them around the city?