Abe pitches Japan’s maglev trains to the US, touting New York to Washington in 40 minutes

Kyodo ^ | 22 September, 2016

[mazda77]

Did it ever dawn on you that you are the whipping post? Geez, you must be a riot at your visits to personal motivational seminars! But maybe you think those are too much of a downer to even try.

[Osage Orange]

Ha!!

FReeper lore.........

Love it...........

[mazda77]

Nope, just a very easy to maintain race car. At least they had the guts to put the rotary into production.

A major portion of my business is reverse engineering but with that said, mag-lev is not rocket science because you will find it in some of our amusement parks.

[Covenantor]

Having shunted back and forth between DC and NYC in the past for more than three decades I find it hard to believe that Amtrak stops now are of 30 to 60 seconds in duration. Those times are faster than NYC subway stops as I recall.

What’s your route?

[pepsi_junkie]

Philadelphia 30th Street Station -> Washington Union Station

I'm counting the actual time at the at the platform with the doors open, not the pulling in/out. People are lined up at the door, they step off and that takes well under a minute, then people get on, again well under a minute and the train goes while people walk around looking for a seat. Maybe it's 2 minutes. It's not more under most circumstances.

[Covenantor]

So yours is a basic commuter train run with very few if any passengers with baggage. Got it.

Thanks for the reply.

[Alberta's Child]

Maybe I’m guilty of that. LOL!

[Alberta's Child]

P.S. — I would have no problem investing public money in infrastructure that actually supports commerce and industry in the U.S. I have no interest in spending one dime to build a high-speed rail link between two of the biggest Marxist sh!t-holes and least productive cities in North America.

[pepsi_junkie]

It's the Accela, which is the "fast" commuter train. The maglev train, if implemented, would be the replacement for it. So it's a pretty direct comparison. And you are correct, it's a commuter train but full to the brim with capacity of around 300 people. Runs from Boston to Washington and I would guess that the stop with the biggest boarding delays would be New York for obvious reasons. Of course you can't count the process of passenger loading in Boston or Washington because they are terminal ends and don't figure into the train schedule. At Philly it will generally take on about 50 people I would guess(but there are 12 doors so generally only like 5 passengers boarding per door), with maybe half that number getting off. Similar for Baltimore and maybe half that at Wilmington. The other stops have much fewer people coming and going.

The bigger problem by far is the fact that there are ancient bridges and tunnels that you have to slow waaay down to go through, by law, as well as local zoning restrictions for safety and/or noise reasons that also make it slow down. So even though it can go something like 100 MPH it's only permitted to actually go just a little faster than the older trains. So unless the japanese want to pay to rebuild all those old tunnels and bridges, and reroute around the towns, this project makes no sense.

[RKBA Democrat]

Stop bringing logic into this. There are billions of dollars in payola at stake.

[RKBA Democrat]

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.

[mazda77]

Public money, absolutely not. Put competition to work and stand back to watch in amazement what we are capable of. The only thing we need from the public is their tacit support. A real leader will get that support. With it, and with all of the money coming back into this country from Trump’s tax plan, there will be plenty of opportunities to have that money and more pay for it as long as those who invested can get their ROI.

[Does so]

Mr. Abe is acting as his country's pitchman to sell Japanese tech, proven as concept and applicable perhaps uniquely to Japan.

Japan doesn't have "immigrants" blowing things up.

:-\

[The Westerner]

T-Bone, you must be an old Confederate. Didn’t know there were any left, out West we don’t hear such things.

[T-Bone Texan]

I think its partly dyslexia or something, cuz my brain immediately goes to “Lincoln”.