[Willie Green]

Well it's about time!!!!
This is the first I've heard of an extension running northwest towards Cleveland, but that does make sense in the long run, as does going north toward Buffalo, south toward Morgantown, and perhaps down the Ohio Valley toward Cincinnati, Louisville, etc. etc. All in the long run, of course. But you gotta start somewhere, and Pittsburgh's a good place to start!

[Petronski]

Lyle Lanley: Well, sir, there’s nothing on earth
Like a genuine,
Bona fide,
Electrified,
Six-car
Monorail!
What’d I say?
Ned Flanders: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What’s it called?
Patty+Selma: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: That’s right! Monorail!
[crowd chants `Monorail’ softly and rhythmically]
Miss Hoover: I hear those things are awfully loud...
Lyle Lanley: It glides as softly as a cloud.
Apu: Is there a chance the track could bend?
Lyle Lanley: Not on your life, my Hindu friend.
Barney: What about us brain-dead slobs?
Lyle Lanley: You’ll be given cushy jobs.
Abe: Were you sent here by the devil?
Lyle Lanley: No, good sir, I’m on the level.
Wiggum: The ring came off my pudding can.
Lyle Lanley: Take my pen knife, my good man.
I swear it’s Springfield’s only choice...
Throw up your hands and raise your voice!
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: What’s it called?
All: Monorail!
Lyle Lanley: Once again...
All: Monorail!
Marge: But Main Street’s still all cracked and broken...
Bart: Sorry, Mom, the mob has spoken!
All: Monorail!
Monorail!
Monorail!
[big finish]
Monorail!
Homer: Mono... D’oh!

[Joe 6-pack]

I personally can’t wait to see what a white tailed deer looks like after it’s been hit by a train pulling 300 mph.

[edpc]

I thought Maglev was a player on the Pittsburgh Penguins hockey team.

[PennsylvaniaMom]

I would love to see the route map. The original MagLev (from a long time ago) would go thru my neighborhood. Literally. I wonder if the Pgh to Philly corridor will do the same?

Oh well...progress. Just curious.

[MarineBrat]

I’d rather they just bring back streetcar service from Brookline to The Point.

[KevinDavis]

I bet you no one is going to ride it..

[sig226]

I know there is a reason why we would want to spend in excess of half a billion dollars on a mag-lev train between Philadelphia and Pittsburgh, I just can’t imagine what it is. I know it would be silly to build one between Boston, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. But I submitted a plan for one that makes a one way trip from San Francisco to Great Sitkin Island in just under seven hours and I think it would be an ideal public work. :)

[ikka]

Will pretty much kill local air service. You can be in Philly in an hour, take a short trip to PHL and have better prices and not have to worry about parking your car.

[Ben Ficklin]

Supposedly, the Obama/dems are funding this because it was part of the deal to get Arlen Specter to change parties.

[Tijeras_Slim]

Congrats Willie.

[dalereed]

Who would ever get on public transportation except a welfare case or an illegal alien?

No public money should ever be spent on public transportation, they do nothing but cost money to support their losing operations.

[Buckeye McFrog]

...so ACORN thugs from Philly can show up in my Pittsburgh neighborhood in an hour?

[ReneeLynn]

Have they actually looked into the number of people who travel from Pittsburgh to Philly? Who in heck wants to go to Philly?

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[Vinnie]

I thought I heard that the maglev or similar trains were to be built in McKeesport.
Using some of the vacant steel mills along the riverfront.

[PA Engineer]

You left out a great deal from this article.

Pittsburgh should be wary of this proposal insofar as that the language of the bill opens the door to limit personal freedom dramatically. The act decrees metropolitan transportation plans are to be devised using “smart growth” principles, while targeting reductions in use of “single occupant vehicles” It also imposes what amounts to federal land restrictions to protect “valuable farmlands” in urban regions, and increasing “livable communities”, so if you know anyone who has had their family farm or homestead designated a wetland, ask them how they dealt with it, because you’re next.

This deal is with the devil and outlines Pittsburgh requirements to use California's smart growth regulations. Everyone please read the entire article. This is green fascism at it's worst.

[Clock King]

MagLev: What the carbon footprint on that? The electrical requirements ain’t cheap!

[jimt]

... a conservative citizenry understanding that mass transit, while sustainable, does not hold mass appeal.

No, what the conservative citizenry understands is that it's "sustainable" by a constant infusion of tax dollars to subsidize its nonsensical existence.

This is just a fancy way of picking the taxpayers' pockets to fund a socialist wet dream.

[patton]

Given your enthusiasm for this, I assume you have a business case in hand, that illustrates that it will turn a profit?