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Why not use this for long distance? Wouldn't it result in cheaper "railway" construction?

• wongarsu 11y ago
  $8 million per kilometer is about the same price as regular railway, so this sounds like a good alternative. Maglev trains in general seem like great, cost efficient technology. They are generally opted against because they require a different type of rails. Given all the other high-speed train options, building a second rail network is nearly never worth it. This leaves only inner-city transportation to maglev, where there are no shared rail tracks, and where maglev can shine with near-silent operation. I don't really see how smaller train cars change any of this. You could build one-person train cars on regular train tracks. You would have to upgrade all the collision-prevention systems used by regular trains, but that's already being worked on to allow better track utilization.