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That UK routes feature at all on this list makes me feel it's not that grounded in "likely to happen in the near-medium term" The UK has an existing High speed
by raesene9 9y ago
That UK routes feature at all on this list makes me feel it's not that grounded in "likely to happen in the near-medium term"
The UK has an existing High speed rail project, HS2(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2) which isn't as ambitious as what's proposed here, but is slated to cost £56 billion and isn't going to even reach Birmingham from London till 2026.
- igravious 9y agoAnd instead of a track we've got an evacuated tube. I'm not saying that it it's not technically feasible, I'd just like to see the finance numbers. Surely London-Edinburgh would be well north of £100 billion. That's a _frightening_ amount. I suppose it's possible that hyperloop might replace future maglev systems: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev#Operational_systems https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maglev#Operational_systems ?