More Reverberations from Danish Schiller Institute Call for Maglev

COPENHAGEN, May 29 (LPAC)-Reflecting our impact, a Danish State Railroad (DSB) Vice Director has called for high-speed trains in Denmark, using some of the same arguments as in the Schiller Institute's maglev proposal. The first sentence of the article in Berlingske Tidende , May 29, reads, "In 20-30 years, Danes may have the chance to ride on high-speed trains between Copenhagen and Aarhus. DSB is now openly and warmly recommending electrical super-trains, which, with speeds up to 250 km/hour, would cover the route between the two largest cities in the country in one-and-a-half hours. [With our maglev proposal, it would take 25 minutes.]

Ove Dahl Kristensen, a vice director of DSB, said, "high-speed trains can be the right solution between Copenhagen and Aarhus, as well as across the Fehmer Belt [to Germany. Copenhagen-Hamburg would then be down to a couple of hours, it says elsewhere in the article]. When we put on long-sighted glasses, we can see that the amount of traffic will rise and rise.... If trains are significantly faster than cars, we can get people to take the train.

"Speed is of the essence with longer stretches. We have seen how both the Great Belt Bridge and the Oeresunds Bridge have meant a colossal increase in traffic."

When called for more information, a press spokesman for DSB said that he had heard of our program and would help get it to the right people.