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>It's more than likely that track designed for 200mph HSR will be completely incompatible with 400mph maglevs. Again, it's completely different infrastructure,
by Anechoic 15y ago
>It's more than likely that track designed for 200mph HSR will be completely incompatible with 400mph maglevs.
Again, it's completely different infrastructure, so yes, it's completely incompatible in the sense that a bicycle trail is incompatible with motor boats. If you have an HSR ROW that you want to change over to maglev, you have to rip up the tracks, rip up the catenary, rip up the power-substations, and build a completely new guideway.
- potatolicious 15y agoviscanti's main point is that infrastructure costs aren't the bulk of the difficulty, but rather acquiring the right of way. But it's extremely unlikely that the right of way acquired for HSR will ever be recyclable to a faster system, even if we ignore the problems of tearing down a system and rebuilding it in-place with no service to mitigate the downtime.
- HnNoPassMailer 15y ago> viscanti's main point is that infrastructure costs aren't the bulk of the difficulty, but rather acquiring the right of way. UltraSpeed's proposal solves this by using 100% elevated tracks. You'd still have landuse, but minimized to pillars.