International Railroad Discussion > Chinese Maglev

The piece of litter I saw in the driveway this afternoon turned out to be Lyndon LaRouche's newspaper _The New Federalist_." It had this article:

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At a Beijing meeting Jan. 21, all remaining details of the deal to build the Shanghai maglev route were settled, according to the German Transrapid consortium. ... Construction work will start immediately, while the 31-kilometer route from the Shanghai airport to downtown Shanghai is expected to be in operation by early 2004. ...
During 2003, a decision will be made on a much larger Transrapid project in China, the 200-kilometer route from Shanghai to the provincial capital Hangzou, which is a key section of the largest project, the 1,300-kilometer Beijing-Shanghai route. ...
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http://www.transrapid.de/english/welt.html