Overview
"Controversy persists over how many people would ride the ""maglev."" This magnetic-levitation rail line has been proposed to connect Baltimore and Washington. If the maglev ran mostly empty, then it would not be worth constructing. To evaluate the maglev's ridership potential, the present document contains a wealth of information for concerned citizens, elected officials, and transportation planners. This information goes far beyond the six-page discussion of maglev ridership in the DEIS, the project's draft environmental impact statement. For unknown reasons, the DEIS uncritically copies its ridership information from a contractor's report that the public is not allowed to read. In contrast, both facts and controversy are laid bare in the document that you are now holding."
Full Product Details
Author: Owen Kelley
Publisher: Owen Kelley
Imprint: Owen Kelley
Dimensions:
Width: 21.60cm
, Height: 0.60cm
, Length: 27.90cm
Weight: 0.308kg
ISBN: 9780967063348
ISBN 10: 0967063345
Pages: 92
Publication Date: 23 August 2021
Audience:
General/trade
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General
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
"""Submission of this into the public record is critical.... These articles are torpedoes that can go a long way in sinking the maglev ship."" --Bill Boone, Cofounder, Citizens Against The SCmagLev (CATS) ""Until they [federal regulators] release their own methods of ridership estimation, your critique is justified."" --Ben Kaufman, Transportation analyst, Griffith University Cities Research Institute ""the DEIS relies on undisclosed methodologies to predict wildly inflated ridership figures and savings in travel time."" --City of Greenbelt, Maryland, commenting on the maglev draft environmental impact statement"
Submission of this into the public record is critical.... These articles are torpedoes that can go a long way in sinking the maglev ship. --Bill Boone, Cofounder, Citizens Against The SCmagLev (CATS) Until they [federal regulators] release their own methods of ridership estimation, your critique is justified. --Ben Kaufman, Transportation analyst, Griffith University Cities Research Institute the DEIS relies on undisclosed methodologies to predict wildly inflated ridership figures and savings in travel time. --City of Greenbelt, Maryland, commenting on the maglev draft environmental impact statement
Author Information
Owen Kelley has a Ph.D. in Computational Science and Informatics, and during the past 20 years, his research has been published in various atmospheric science journals. Kelley is also the author of a 246-page photo-illustrated field guild to the Greenbelt North Woods. He currently serves on Greenbelt's Forest Preserve Advisory Board. During the past several years, he has written about the proposed Baltimore-Washington maglev.
