
U.S. Halts Ambitious MAGLEV Project Amidst Setbacks
Published on: Aug. 1, 2025, 9:35 p.m. | Source: Devdiscourse
The U.S. government has terminated an environmental review and retracted $26 million in funding for the long-delayed Baltimore-Washington MAGLEV rail project. The decision was due to poor planning, community opposition, and substantial cost overruns, rendering the project, initially intended to provide high-speed magnetic levitation transport, unfeasible.