The proposal to build a $10 billion high-speed maglev train route between Baltimore and Washington has picked up the support of the North American Building Trades Unions and the Legislative Black Caucus of Maryland, officials of both groups announced Wednesday.
The Japanese superconducting magnetic levitation technology promises to shorten the trip between Baltimore and Washington to 15 minutes, and officials hope to eventually expand it to New York, creating an hourlong trip between the nation’s capital and its largest city.
If it is built, the project will use union labor for construction and the unions’ two dozen training centers in the Baltimore-Washington area to prepare new workers for apprenticeships, according to a memorandum of understanding between the unions and Baltimore Washington Rapid Rail, the firm seeking to build the train.
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