Interstate Traveler Company is a Whitmore Lake based organization founded by Justin Eric Sutton with a concept for hydrogen powered, magnetic levitated rail transportation.
In the news
- Transit company founder sure he's on right track, Christopher Behnan for Livingston Daily, January 17, 2011
One vocal critic of Sutton's MagLev plan is Kevin Coates, executive director of the Washington, D.C.-based North American MagLev Transport Institute. Coates said Sutton is selling an untested concept, and asking for financial and state officials' support without a visual product.
- Whitmore Lake company's Mag-Lev train concept: Mass transit solution or idea that won't get off the ground?, Tina Reed for the Ann Arbor News, May 2009
Carmine Palombo, director of transportation planning from the Southeast Michigan Council of Governments, said his staff has researched the project. It looks good on paper, but there's no evidence it would work or earn back its substantial startup costs when the state isn't taking advantage of some of its current conventional means of transportation, Palombo said.
