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viscanti'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 t
by potatolicious 15y ago
viscanti'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.