Congestion on I95 can only be fixed by massive widening or fewer vehicles. The rail network is close to full capacity, forcing more freight onto the roads.
It’s financial good sense, and good for business, to use rail.
I live in a semi-rural part of the UK. After 60 years of ripping up rail lines and letting the canals go to pot while funnelling ever more cars into the same old bottlenecks, our local area started putting them back in.
There are new business parks being built out of town, close to the railways and canals which are back in use.
Link roads to the freeway are drawing morning traffic east and away from the congested towns. This road traffic moves freely at speed whereas the westbound road traffic that’s been encouraged by road dependence and urbanisation still turns the trunk roads into car parks.
More and more people are going to work by boat or train, getting to work quicker, and aren’t arriving at work stressed out by the traffic jams.
Forty mile mag-lev system? It won’t even have time to get up to full speed before it has to start decelerating.
Brill.
My point was why use expensive Maglev (is there even one daily operational Maglev Train operating in the USA?) when building Conventional Rail is cheaper and a proven Technology?
My guess is the Elitist DC Dwellers want the very best in modern technology. The rest of us saps can ride Busses and Criminal Infested Subways.