Cutting edge to the cutter’s torch.

What happens to old transportation technology? It becomes less valuable than scrap! The Birmingham airport MAGLEV was cutting edge transportation technology in 1984 (two years before the SkyTrain Expo Line opened) but by 1995 was scrapped as obsolete. This is reminiscent of another cutting edge transportation technology more than a century ago, the atmospheric railway. [...]

Michigan: Hearings on Hydrogen-Solar-Maglev Supertrain

  Got lots of federal recovery money to spend on ecconomic stimulus transportation projects? Then, let’s spend it on questionable studies and silly projects instead of real transit solutions that will solve real transportation problems. Even though this article comes from the USA, Canadian politicians are no different and when there is free money around it’s seldom, [...]