county looks at maglev
20 years ago…
May 9, 1986 – K. Sam Tabuchi, a representative of Japanese National Railways in Florida, explains the new concept of bullet trains to members of the Hillsborough/Tampa High Speed Rail Task Force. Called MAGLEV, the high-speed rail used “magnetic levitation” and could travel 300 miles per hour. At a cost of $3 billion ($5.1 billion in today’s dollars), Tabuchi suggested that by 1995 the bullet train could travel between Tampa and Orlando in 15 minutes.
Courtesy of the Tampa Bay History Center.
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May 9th, 2006 at 11:39 am
what no love for the skyway today?
May 9th, 2006 at 1:45 pm
I hear you, but for 2006 we are only doing dates on years that end in a 1 or 6. We’ll get back around to the Sunshine Skyway accident in 2010.
May 9th, 2006 at 2:51 pm
Write it up, edit!
May 9th, 2006 at 6:03 pm
I saw nothing in the Times or the Trib, does anybody know if they are doing something on the weekend editions?
May 9th, 2006 at 7:43 pm
I think they really loaded up their Skyway content last year, with the 25th anniversary and all. I saved them, being a Skyway junkie as I am.