2017 Year in Review: Colorado transportation on the move with Hyperloop project . . .

The Summit Daily ^ | December 25, 2017 | Summit Daily Staff Report

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

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2017 Year in Review: Colorado transportation on the move with Hyperloop project, parking and highway expansion projects

[DakotaGator]

The futuristic, pod-based transportation system for Colorado could cost as much as $24 billion...

Who is going to pay for it? If it's the taxpayer, then the project is already a failure.

[Kirkwood]

Does it run on hype?

[LegendHasIt]

"It sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi movie, but Colorado has been named one of 10 finalists for the Hyperloop One competition, which could end with a vacuum-sealed tunnel shooting people from Cheyenne to Pueblo and Vail to Denver at speeds up to 700 miles per hour."

So, who do they expect to pay for it?

And how many times the projected 24 billion dollar cost will it reallycost?

[House Atreides]

Yep...HypeHerLoop.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Colorado’s fall back jobs plan will rely on sorting seeds and stems.

[lee martell]

A Super-Duper-Hyper-Looper!
Meanwhile, in California, we have our own Money Hole.
It’s (ironically) called a Smart Train, courtesy of Governor Brown.

[ptsal]

Will the design include pee and poop wash-down facilities?

[noiseman]

How can we have a “hyperloop” when we haven’t yet had a “superloop”, a “deluxeloop”, or even a plain old “loop?” What will they call an improved hyperloop? And what does the word “loop” in the name refer to anyway?

OK, ending random irrelevant thought now.

[noiseman]

I see you already answered one of my earlier musings, namely what to call the hyperloop when they come up with an improved version.

[lee martell]

I think Lucille Ball had an episode that used a name similar to that. The product was some kind on expensive Snake Oil Nerve Tonic.

[Kirkwood]

It seems unfeasible to maintain a nearly 600 mile loop under continuous vacuum.

[umgud]

Maybe guv Hickerlooper will push this Hyperlooper.

[catnipman]

“It sounds like something straight out of a sci-fi movie” ... that’s because a vacuum-sealed tunnel 215 miles from Cheyenne to Pueblo IS something from a science fiction movie ...

AND actual costs would be closer to a couple of trillion dollars than 24 billion.

(btw, i’d settle for a third bore to the Eisenhower tunnel on I-70 under the continental divide.)

[dsc]

Who is going to be commuting between Cheyenne and Pueblo—besides cartel mules?

More “public transportation” with no riders.

[catnipman]

“Maybe guv Hickerlooper will push this Hyperlooper.”

yeah. he could present it as his grand vision for running for President in 2020 ...

[digger48]

Vitameatavegamin

[MileHi]

Well the “light rail” is going really well. /s

[TigersEye]

When it fails as a transportation system it will become the world's biggest shotgun bong!

[lee martell]

That’s the one!