So much for the railroads, and railroads in DC...

From "Bush Calls for Familiar Trims," subtitled "Congress Refused Many in First Term," in today's Post:

"Under Bush's proposed budget cuts, nearly all of Amtrak's federal funding would end as would money for the Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing program. A next-generation high-speed rail research program would also be scrapped."
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Because of the presence of Amtrak in DC, as well as the service it provides in the Northeast Corridor and to Pittsburgh, Amtrak is essential to DC's economic development planning from a transportation and jobs development standpoint.

So much for maglev in the U.S. (not to mention adding redundancy to the nation's transportation system and planning for reduced oil supplies).

A bullet train pulls in at a railway station in Shanghai January 28, 2007. The new CRH (China Railway High-speed) bullet train, which has a top speed of 250 kph (155 mph), would cut the journey time on the key Beijing-Shanghai route from nine hours to five, Xinhua News Agency said. REUTERS/Aly Song (CHINA)

See this website, The Baltimore-Washington Maglev Project, for maglev planning for the Washington-Baltimore region (which had been initiated by the State of Maryland in the Glendenning Administration, as well as by US DOT back in the Clinton Administration -- it does make a difference who gets elected!)