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The original Hyperloop paper addresses this issue; HSR can't run down the middle of I5 for most of its length. I have no idea what the costs will be, but if you
by greglindahl 10y ago
The original Hyperloop paper addresses this issue; HSR can't run down the middle of I5 for most of its length. I have no idea what the costs will be, but if you're going to attack Hyperloop for getting this wrong, it'd be a good idea to attack what they actually proposed instead of something different.
- Gibbon1 10y agoThe reason HSR rail wasn't routed down I5 is because the I5 corridor is unpopulated vs the HWY99 corridor which has several major cities.
- greglindahl 10y agoHSR can't fit in the median of I5; if you're going to have to buy a huge chunk of land, sure, you'll run it where there are more people.
- dragonwriter 10y agoThat was part of the basis for low costs, the other part was that the original Hyperloop paper avoided the costs of connecting population centers by putting its termini far from the population centers it was supposed to service on either end. Of course, that makes it kind of silly to compare it as an alternative to HSR, whose high costs include acquiring land in the very expensive neighborhoods of the population centers it was supposed to serve, so that it would actually be a useful means of connecting population centers.