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Another reason why build maglev in parallel with current Shinkansen is because current Tokaido Shinkansen was built in 1960s so the infrastructure is getting ol
by fomine3 5y ago
Another reason why build maglev in parallel with current Shinkansen is because current Tokaido Shinkansen was built in 1960s so the infrastructure is getting old. After the maglev built, old Shinkansen line can be used to different use case like cheaper HSR line, and backup.
* Shinkansen is Shin/kan/sen, shin means new, so old shinkansen is a bit funny.
Another reason was Tokaido Shinkansen was extremely utilized (it goes every a few minutes) before covid. Now this era with remote work, big companies (primary customer in workday) become realizing that they don't have to pay for train to meeting but just able to use Zoom. There are doubt is before-covid level demand reviving while we're in population decreasing situation..