The US federal government has announced a $28m grant for Pennsylvania’s maglev project, which has been under planning for nearly three decades.
The funding will be used for pre-engineering studies for the project, which will consist of an initial 54-mile long magnetic levitation train line linking Pittsburgh International Airport with downtown Pittsburgh and the eastern suburbs at Pennsylvania Turnpike and Greensburg, with later extensions to Philadelphia.
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Trains would run at over 250mph allowing passengers to reach Pittsburgh from Philadelphia in under two hours.
According to 2003 estimations, the project’s first phase to build a line linking the airport, Downtown Pittsburgh, Monroeville and Greensburg will cost $3.75bn and a line from the airport to a stop just above Grant Street will cost $1.6bn.
The project had previously received $22m in federal funds.
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