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My question is, what would it take to reduce the cost of maglev trains. China has tried, but they are expensive. Japan is building an expensive maglev over the
by melling 3y ago
My question is, what would it take to reduce the cost of maglev trains.
China has tried, but they are expensive. Japan is building an expensive maglev over the next couple decades.
- ghaff 3y agoThe actual answer is that you just take people's property without compensation or with well below market compensation. (And throw out any requirements for Environmental Impact Statements.) That's where the cost savings would be. I don't actually favor that to be clear. Building the actual structures has cost but it's probably not where the bulk of the costs are.
- melling 3y agoNo, it’s the bike shedding that people do. They can’t actually answer the question so they digress and discuss something else. I guess you wanna talk about property rights?
- devman0 3y agoI guess it depends on how you are defining "costs" in the question. Costs due to regulatory/legal requirements are a huge part of why these projects are expensive in addition to actual track, trainsets, civil engineering, etc that go in to these projects.