Buying the tech from Japan isn’t gonna solve the fact that you don’t even know how to manage a normal passenger rail line, buddy!

Also I know this is technically a Japanese news site reporting from their perspective, but the US is still seriously considering this on their end, just like how they’ve been considering it since Japan first introduced the SCMaglev prototype decades ago.

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look at the hawaii rail, its small and very basic but its been going for decades and is currently costing us around 10 billion and rising

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Im not an expert but why do they want to build it 70% underground? Isnt that way more expensive?

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I wonder if it has something to do with surface exposure to magnetic fields. A very strong magnetic field, enough to levitate a train, zipping by you at the speed of said train, while not harmful to human biology unlike a lot of fear mongerers claim, can interfere with radio antennas and the navigation systems on ships and aircraft. The inside of the train is heavily shielded but I imagine it’s pretty much impossible to prevent it from escaping into the outside without containing the entire track in shielding.

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Isn’t that way more expensive?

I think you answered your question there

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You and I both know that is never going to happen.

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Can anyone access archive.ph? I always get this message:

don’t tell me it’s blocked 😩

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how to manage a normal passenger rail line

Management is indeed a different issue from building. Germany builds (or at least used to build) passenger trains - Siemens worked in conjunction with Russian railway and underground to create trains currently running in and around Moscow.

But ask any German about the Bahn and you’ll see steam coming out of their noses.

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