What is needed is a comprehensive review of rail and a briefing TO the FTA on how the rail project can be saved through conversion to modern urban magnetic levitation (maglev) technology.  Let the review include "staying the course," dropping to grade through town, and converting to maglev.  I believe that maglev can be the "vehicle" for completion of the 20-mile plan within the allotted $6.8 billion budget, provided that the current guideway construction stops at 12 miles and negotiations are initiated with Hitachi Italy for the manufacture of maglev rail cars.