Trial run of a maglev train
Trial run of a maglev train
Holy Toledo!! A Japanese man named Abe? I clicked to find out if this was a company named after Lincoln. Well, Abe, lovely, lovely idea. However, who will pay for it? Mr. Huntington? No, he’s long gone. Mr. Amtrak? No such person. Maybe you’re thinking if Trump wins the two of you can cut a deal? Just wondering.
Build a NY-DC maglev transport system?
We could no more do that now, than we could build the Hoover Dam.
With all due respect to the Prime Minister, we will wait until a real President is sworn in - sworn in on a Bible, that is.
Nobody’s opposed with doing business with the rest of the world. We the People are just not interested in selling America down the river in the process.
Phone call for Mr. Willie Green, please pick up the courtesy phone .
Map below shows current Amtrak rail stops, from Washington DC to Boston.
Note that the DC-NYC run spans six political divisions, DC, Maryland, Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York, each with it's own political representatives subject to pressures by various interest groups, a situation not present in Japan.
Eight stops between start and end points. With TSA governing entry points to the system, five minutes at each stop, boarding and unboarding, eats up the entire 40 minutes Mr. Abe envisions for transit.
Highly unlikely that the five minutes can be reduced as our inhomogeneous population cannot yet be herded and pushed into trains in the manner in which the Japanese are accustomed.
Various high speed rail solutions have been tried over the years for the BostonWashington corridrightirst the Metroliner, then the current Accela, none of which achieved the hyped initial proposals. All attempts to limit stops have failed to deliver on the promises. In fact, additional suburban stops have been added to service the urban fleeing suburban jobs market. Few inner city workers use the trains to commute.
Unmentioned are the burdens Unions and minority set aside contracts impose on the implementation of any rail system.
The Eastern DC-NYC air shuttle achieved the approximate 40 min flight time, airport to airport at a reasonable cost, although at double or so the train fare at the time. It remains to be seen what the eventual MagLev real final cost would be and how that would translate to ticket prices, barring Federal subsidies, that old socialist porkbarrel money laundering scheme.
Finally, does anyone detect the smell of Elon Musk behind the curtains. This one is right up his alley
Was this a pitch for maglev, or a maglev-camouflaged pitch for TPP aimed directly at the Beltway elites?
>>“The Asia-Pacific should be much, much better off with the US fully being a TPP member,” he said. “We are simply waiting for you to take a leadership role.”
Yes, but the question for Congress should be whether AMERICA would be “much, much better off” with the US fully being a TPP member. That nuance always seems to get lost on these elitists.
All it needs is a nuclear power source and viola, Supertrain.
I’d like to see this done in a big way, nationally, rather than stuff like the Mission to Mars foolishness. They only chase these space fantasies in search of something that might help them deny Special Creation and push atheism. IMHO.
Recently tried Auto Train north from Florida. Equipment, personnel and service were fine. But the tracks and therefore the ride was like riding in a cement mixer; and we never exceeded 70 mph. I longed and prayed for a mag-lev train.
IMHO, USA doesn’t have bullet trains because of airlines and airplane mfrs paying off Congress to prevent it. We could afford mag lev if Trump eliminated some gubmint waste and demanded that we catch up with Japan and France.
Imagine NY to DC in 40 minutes. Or central FL to DC in 4 hours instead of 17. Think of the jobs it would create, to have bullet trains criss-crossing the Nation. DC to Seattle in 8 hrs, and have your own car with you upon arrival. Philly to Chicago in 2 hours.
We need to use a lot of these tracks for FREIGHT. That means a dedicated line for a handful of trains going from NYC to DC, one that is completely incompatible with the existing rail lines including those for Accela. And yes, there would HAVE to be stops for big league cities like Newark, Philly and Baltimore. Frankly, NYC and Washington DC are too closely linked as it is.
I-83 was a concrete roadway. Local generals and subs under PennDot did the Pennsy stretch. My dad operated the cement plant where the transit mixer trucks pulled in to reload in York County. We couldn’t afford it now; until we end profligate spending on boondoggles elsewhere.
There are always naysayers and nitpickers deriding every new concept. But mag lev is NOT a pipedream. It IS being done. BTW...the Prime Minister’s name, Abe, is pronounced Ah-bay. (I provide that info at no extra charge).
That’ll be really cool when it gets going in Japan.
In the US, it doesn’t make much sense from a business perspective. People whose travel is time sensitive can fly. Others can drive, take a bus, or take a train.