February 2nd, 2018 by WCBC Radio

WTOP reports  Japan’s high-speed rail is one of the world’s fastest train systems, and plans to bring that to Maryland continue. “We are essentially down to a corridor of the Baltimore-Washington Parkway,” said Maryland Secretary of Transportation Pete Rahn. Rahn, speaking to a house committee in Annapolis on Thursday, said the options are building the train down either the west side or the east side of the parkway. The final option: Don’t build the train.

Northeast MAGLEV CEO Wayne Rodgers said if the project continues to move forward as planned and the state gives the green light to a route, construction could begin in late 2020. Construction is expected to take five to seven years, according to Rodgers.

“The future begins in Maryland,” Rogers said.

He told the committee that his team’s preferred route is the east side of the BW Parkway, for the 100 percent privately funded high-speed train line.