More pictures and video at link.
To: EveningStar
How do they prevent rapid deceleration injuries? Are you strapped in a 5 point harness the whole ride?
How the they prevent rapid deceleration period?
To: EveningStar
Can you imagine the devastation that will occur when the first one of these runs off the rails at speed?
It will be far worse than any plane crash.
3 posted on
06/05/2013 9:31:27 AM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Forget it, Jake. It's Eric Holder's people.")
To: EveningStar
7 posted on
06/05/2013 9:39:50 AM PDT by
lewislynn
(What does the global warming movement and the Fairtax movement have in common? Disinformation)
To: EveningStar
One thing I noticed about both Tokyo *and* Frankfurt is...and I know that it sounds clichéd...that you *can* set your watch by the train schedules.Time and again I saw it.Simply amazing!
8 posted on
06/05/2013 9:43:33 AM PDT by
Gay State Conservative
(Leno Was Right,They *Are* Undocumented Democrats!)
To: EveningStar
9 posted on
06/05/2013 9:43:56 AM PDT by
DannyTN
To: EveningStar
I’d like to ride that thing (once it is out of testing)!
16 posted on
06/05/2013 9:55:41 AM PDT by
formosa
To: EveningStar
Photo of bullet train riders.
To: EveningStar; Willie Green
20 posted on
06/05/2013 10:06:38 AM PDT by
Paladin2
(;-))
To: EveningStar
They can build nice things because they don’t have ANY MOSQUES in Japan!
27 posted on
06/05/2013 10:44:54 AM PDT by
rawcatslyentist
(Jeremiah 50:32 "The arrogant one will stumble and fall With no one to raise him up; And I will set)
To: EveningStar
Fifty feet above ground level is the same as ground level when the debris begins to fly.
29 posted on
06/05/2013 10:48:19 AM PDT by
E. Pluribus Unum
("Forget it, Jake. It's Eric Holder's people.")
To: EveningStar
“Japan’s floating bullet trains - which will travel at up speeds of up to 311mph” [on a good day]
Modern jet airliners travel at an average of 575mph.
This new train is reported to be planned to make the Tokyo to Nagoya trip in 40 minutes, from the present 90 minutes.
Frequent jet flights NOW between Tokyo and Nagoya take 29 minutes, carry hundreds of passengers at a time with express airport-to-city-center rail connections at both ends.
And, the infrastructure costs per-passenger mile of airports is many times less than the infrastructure costs per passenger mile for trains of any sort. [given in part due to how a single airport supports MANY, MANY multiple route streams and a train line only supports one route stream].
The modern age requires a new development paradigm - decentralization and dispersion.
High speed rail is the Concourse program for the new millennium.
40 posted on
06/05/2013 1:44:05 PM PDT by
Wuli
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