Posted on 10/13/2019 8:19:47 PM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Will a hyperloop work in Pennsylvania?
That’s the question officials from legislative and executive branches, statewide agencies, organizations and departments, as well as a handful of private business leaders are trying to answer.
Fifty people, invited to a workshop at Dixon University in Harrisburg on Wednesday, met to talk about the possibility of building a hyperloop system in the commonwealth. The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has until April 2020 to complete a $2 million state-legislative commissioned study on its viability.
Media wasn’t permitted to attend the invitation-only meeting.
According to the turnpike’s research, a hyperloop combines a magnetic levitation train and a low pressure transit tube to propel “pods or capsules” at high rates of speed. It can travel up to 700 mph.
There are currently no hyperloop systems constructed worldwide, but the first to-scale hyperloop is expected to break ground in 2020-21 in either India or United Arab Emirates. The challenge here is how well it will work on Pennsylvania’s terrain, said Barry Altman, the state’s hyperloop project manager, during a phone interview before Wednesday’s workshop.
"We recognize that on the front end, geography is a key issue,” Altman said. "Pennsylvania is not ideal for hyperloop, but that doesn’t mean it can’t be built.” He acknowledged those factors could make building one in the state more expensive and longer to complete than in other states. No cost estimates have been discussed publicly at this point.
State Rep. Aaron Kaufer, a Luzerne County Republican, attended the meeting. He spearheaded and co-sponsored House Bill 1057, legislation that directed the Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission to conduct the study. AECOM, a Los-Angeles, California-based engineering firm, is analyzing what it would take to build a hyperloop tube that would run from Pittsburgh to Harrisburg to Philadelphia and then north toward Luzerne County.
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Giant slingshot would work fine.
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As kids, we had to do that ride. 6 hours! Torture to see grandparents. Got a little better once we grew up and better roads. I’d love to have this 30 years ago!!!!!
Pittsburgh to Valley Forge (primary EB Philly exit) Toll on the PA Transit subsidy aka Turnpike is $39.30
$ with EZ Pass $26.90
One way.
Going up 6% on January 1, 2020.
Can you say, “highway robbery?”
I knew you could.
Why not $2 million dollars for a study about a Star Trek transporter?
That would be faster.
Or a $2 million dollar study on whether young, rich and healthy people are happier than old, poor and sick people.
The concept doesn’t violate any of the laws of physics (Scotty would agree). It’s at least worth studying. Where’s the can-do spirit these days?
Bwahahahaha
Oh goody. Now Pennsylvania can replicate California
is this the first signal of gavin newsom for president?
i can envision it already:
“make high speed rail great again!”
lol
It now costs more than $25 in tolls to use the Turnpike from Harrisburg to New Stanton.
When I started using it, the toll was $14 a little more than 7 years ago.
I recall reading or hearing a news article about how Pennsylvania was going to continue to raise the toll 4% per year for the next 40 years.
Good job Pennsylvania.
So how many people will need to get from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in half an hour?
How much will it cost to travel?
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How many people are willing to wait at each of the dozens of stops for 1/2 hour?
Cost? One dollar each way... the other $174 will be taken out of taxes as a subsidy.
There's a huge red flag, taxpayers.
BTW, just checked your state budget, Pennsy. Thanks to your public pension obligations and Medicaid spending, you can't afford it.
But just to be clear, hal, they aren't wasting money on the PROJECT. There is no projectt, and there never will be.
They're wasting money on the project MANAGER and his staff.
The reason they are doing that is probably the need to win women's votes in the suburbs.
The safety issues keep coming to my mind...
What if there is a break down? 700 mph is a LOT of momentum that would disintegrate a ‘de-levitated’ train...
What if there is a loss of power? You can’t just get out and walk in a depressurized tunnel without dying, and there would have to be a plethora of life support equipment that would have to be redundant with independent power...
Sounds like a death tunnel to me.
What a scam. I wonder to whom is he related?
Hey, how about taking that passenger compartment, putting wings and engines on it and using the atmosphere around all of us for levitation. Hey, then you don’t have to put down those expensive tubes and tracks. These winged compartments can go anywhere where there’s an atmosphere.
How many dollars per foot does boring and lining a tunnel through granite and shale cost? Never going to happen and people that think it will are deluded. Just because it was Musk’s idea doesn’t make it a good one.
Yeah, but I’ll bet those winged tubes in the atmosphere can’t do 700 mph. Why, they only get to 500 mph. Those last 200 mph are absolutely essential.
“Yeah, but I’ll bet those winged tubes in the atmosphere can’t do 700 mph.”
I suspected my idea was a bad one but I threw it out anyway.
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