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Traveler Station for the Interstate Traveler Hydrogen Super Highway

This new industrial model will revolutionize public infrastructure and create millions of jobs over the next 20 years.

Rarely do we see in America the bold moves to build grand public projects like was seen 100 years ago in the hay-day of public transit. In the early 1900’s America saw the rise of many great public buildings like the Grand Central Station and Penn Station in New York. Every great city in America seems to have built a giant train station during those glory days. But these days many of those great public buildings have been abandoned or town down. The Interstate Traveler Company of Detroit has built itself up around those bold ideas with state of the art magnetic levitation high speed rail technology at its center.

Company officials have been working internationally for years to raise awareness of their state of the art high speed rail technology, yet home is where the heart is. While attending a recent local gathering near Heart Plaza in the center of Detroit, conversation turned toward the impressive jobs creation numbers and the great volume of new public space that will be built to serve their first major installation of their rail technology they call “The Alpha System” which has been mapped out to include about 90 miles of highway connecting Detroit with Ann Arbor. Having to two large loops in Detroit and a complete loop all the way around the City of Ann Arbor the maps show the rail passing 42 highway interchanges. According to their plans each highway interchange will have two large Traveler Stations for public access. This means they plan to build 84 Traveler Stations to provide access to the system for people traveling along the rail. When asked about where all 100 proposed Traveler Stations would be constructed, officers from the company pointed out the need to integrate with hospitals, universities, public venues and air ports on the route which will quickly account for an additional 16 Traveler Stations.

According to the Founder Mr. Justin Sutton, the 'Alpha System' has been designed from step one to optimize the Interstate Highway rights of way with a primary focus on maximum access for the people along the route. "We will build a pair of Traveler Stations at every highway interchange between Detroit and Ann Arbor to insure that all people along the route will have equal access to the benefits of our system". Sutton went on to compare the Interstate Traveler Alpha System with some other local small scale light rail proposals that are demanding a tax subsidy and only plan for 5 train stations. Compared to the proposed 100 Traveler Stations and no tax payer subsidies, it seems the Alpha System wins hands down. "This new industrial model will revolutionize public infrastructure and create millions of jobs over the next twenty years." Sutton said and based on the material published on their website it is tough to argue with the numbers.

"Public transportation systems in cities all over the world have often made the mistake of building stations for trains instead of stations for people." said CEO Mr. Jim Jung, "In this day and age we all need to recognize the need for great public spaces in grand fashion and in a scale befitting of a big city. For Public Transit to be a success you have to make room for lots of people." The conversation with Jung was full of surprises as he made point after point about the necessity to focus on People and how best to serve large numbers of Travelers and make sure that the general public has immediate access to the Traveler Stations and a host of services that you would find at the finest air ports around the world. “People want quality and a positive experience and easy access, and most of all 24 hour service.” Jung continued “We are a Detroit based company that has made this our central mission.”

How can this start-up company expect to build 100 buildings that are 10,000 square feet or bigger and build nearly 100 miles of state of the art magnetic levitation rail systems? The Chairman of the Board Mr. Jay Wilber was more than happy to answer this question. “Our core leadership teams are all automotive production specialists, we like to say that here in Detroit we are a culture of innovators the make machines that mass produce more machines. The logistics of the Alpha System are challenging to say the least, but Detroit has the greatest concentration of Engineers in North America and some of the best companies in the world that specialize in factory automation. We can and will do this when we finally nail down an equitable Public Private Partnership with the State of Michigan.” Few people know the Detroit automotive scene as well as Mr. Wilber. His first start with GM in Flint began before he was 18 years of age. After 41 years of service at General Motors, Wilber can look back at a career that includes more than 20 years in labor relations, human resources and as a key negotiator with the UAW. Perhaps the most famous of his accomplishments is the publication of “United We Stand” with co-author Thomas Weekly of the UAW. Industry insiders all recognize this volume as the go-to book on how GM and UAW functioned together to build the best cars in the world. Wilber retired from GM in 2005 as the Executive Director of the UAW / GM Human Resources Center in down town Detroit and now he looks forward to a new industrial revolution for sustainable public infrastructure technology exported from Detroit.

The board member in charge of developing the construction management division of the company is Mr. Robert Meske. Mr. Meske has decades of experience building state of the art commercial buildings working years in the city of Ann Arbor on many of the audacious and world leading architecture projects undertaken by the University of Michigan. With nineteen years experience as a public servant and Owner's Representative for the University of Michigan participating in a several one (1) billion dollar construction campaigns involving Health Care and Medical Research projects and Central Campus projects, Mr. Meske is no stranger to responsibility for billions of dollars worth of construction activity. “There is nothing easy or simple about construction management” said Meske “My job is to assemble and manage our library of contracts and make sure we exceed all standards for safety and process management during the many stages of construction.” Meske continued to describe the exciting challenge ahead for him as he talked about how exiting it will be to witness the simultaneous construction of 100 building in the Detroit metro area. With a million square feet of combined public space in all our Traveler Stations added to the space provide in the 300 public transit vehicles on the system the company says they project the total occupancy potential could be more than 250,000 people moving about in our system.

So the looming question is: When will this ground breaking company actually be permitted to break actual ground? This quickly the determination of the Founder who launched the initiative in 2002 and by mid 2003 had already won the full support of the Michigan AFL-CIO, District 2 of the United Steel Workers of America, twelve of the fourteen metropolitan councils of government in the State of Michigan and the official Unanimous Resolutions of support from the House and Senate of the State of Michigan. He went on to explain how the State Resolutions represent a stake in the ground that says: “Here We Begin Anew” with the entire elected legislature of the State of Michigan signing their names to the Resolutions and are witness that fact that Michigan is the first State in the Union to Resolve to Build a State and Nationwide sustainable infrastructure smart grid integrated with modern and efficient magnetic levitation rail technology. When considering the work that has been done by this company in their home state and abroad it becomes clear that there has been a political problem to make progress since 2003. Yet the officers of this company continue to keep their pencils sharp for when the political situation is finally resolved so that work can begin.

After a recent presentation to the official Green Task Force of the Detroit City Council on the 23rd of June, one city council official was heard saying “We Need This”. The official chose to remain anonymous but made it clear that a bold vision is what Detroit needs now more than ever.