Places that have done them or are under construction:
Shanghai (airport to a transfer station outside of downtown): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shanghai_maglev_train
Japan (NEW New Tokaido line)
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"with a 125 mph, or LA-LV-140 range"
Actually, assuming this line ever gets off the ground, the latest for LA-LV are 200mph capable electrics.
But yes, 250 is a bit excessive, but not crazy wh
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Defund the police and build the biggestest fastestest something. The Sinocrats run Washington state, so a Chinese firm will get the contract, no doubt.
https://www.opb.org/article/2020/12/09/casca
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BOB2 Wrote:
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> The problem with going "super fast" on a guideway
> like this with a relatively short distance between
> the handful of statio
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The problem with going "super fast" on a guideway like this with a relatively short distance between the handful of stations there is no opportunity to use it... We have not repealed the laws of grav
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The Vegas tunnel is a glorified parking lot shuttle.
It was never intended to be a demonstration of anything other than Boring's ability to use a repurposed sewer machine to bore small tunnels that
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And, having worked with some people who've done some really impressively sized highway tunnels, moving 1800 vehicles per lane per hour, and whole lot more who have bored transit tunnels, which haul th
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Ms. Pasternak Wrote:
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> > Sounds like a very fast taxi in a tunnel
> basically.
>
> Also sounds like "hyperloop", not "hyerloop".
I woul
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Sunny and Share :-- Wrote:
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> Putin will win in 2020. Trump will have
> previously forged his birther documents and
> recovered them from a
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Putin will win in 2020. Trump will have previously forged his birther documents and recovered them from a Hawaiian Census Bureau Office's basement. The Chinese, with Zuckerburg's assistance, will ha
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I see what the OP is talking about though. If you look at US-93 without considering topography, it sure does look like a straight-shot shortcut between LV and PHX. Zoom in on the topo, though, and it
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You can only build cost effective choo-choo in a corridor where you have demand and market "benefits", and low enough costs, relative to that demand, to justify building it. There is considerable att
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Google Maps. Use. Google Earth. Use. Plot routes. Notice that there are several sets of substantial mountains in the way, even if you plan to run down to Needles and pick up the 40 for the easterly le
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He's always put the hype in hyperloop for me...
There is nothing to see here. It is essentially what was done in a Ft. Worth shopping center over 50 years ago with the Tandy Subway.... Compared
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Actual title.
I don't think there's any passenger train, high speed or otherwise, that makes enough money to cover operating, capital, and administrative costs. That, plus profit, is what's needed
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Keith has special powers to read my mind.... He "assumes" he knows so many things...
Maybe I should "assume" he's run a little low on his medication...
Meanwhile...back on this planet....
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He stinks.
Really!
He never uses soap and water to clean his euro trash frame.
Ask anyone!
You don't want to work hourly at Muskland.
When erm is not around, things move much better
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BOB2 Wrote:
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> I dunno...? I don't have much of an opinion on
> Elon. He seems to get angry a lot when he doesn't
> have things go his way,
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I dunno...? I don't have much of an opinion on Elon. He seems to get angry a lot when he doesn't have things go his way, or when folks raise questions about the value of some of his companies... Di
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Is it that much stupider than PB's Palmdale Detour or 5-6 in the land of 4-8 1/2?
Seems that there is plenty of hype to go around(altho Elon is definitely the HypeMeister). How about SMART?
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synonymouse Wrote:
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> Where's The "Elon" Coach?
His pneumatic tube idea (Hyperloop) seems more like an early 20th century World's Fair attra
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