Posted on 09/22/2016 1:37:34 AM PDT by sukhoi-30mki
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is pitching Japans maglev technology for the railway system in the United States.
Speaking in a meeting with US business leaders and financial experts in New York on Wednesday, Abe said that in the late 2030s, a maglev train linking Tokyo to Nagoya in central Japan will take just 40 minutes - an hour shorter than currently required for the shinkansen bullet train. The two cities are about 260km apart, as the crow flies.
The distance between Tokyo and Nagoya is almost the same as that between New York and [Washington] DC, he said. You could do the same thing here with the maglev technology.
Abe noted that the planned train in Japan would reach Osaka station in an additional 20 minutes, making it only an hours ride from Tokyo, 400km away.
In the speech, the prime minister said Japan will continue to serve as an engine for free trade, and expressed determination to implement a pending Pacific trade pact and to conclude a free trade agreement between Japan and the European Union as soon as possible.
Abe called for Washingtons leadership in putting into force the 12-nation Trans-Pacific Partnership free trade pact despite opposition by both Democratic and Republican presidential nominees, former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and business mogul Donald Trump.
Please do ratify the TPP, Abe said, requesting that Congress approve the deal he said is good for free, fair and open trade.
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.
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.
FReeper lore.........
Love it...........
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.
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?
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.
So yours is a basic commuter train run with very few if any passengers with baggage. Got it.
Thanks for the reply.
Maybe I’m guilty of that. LOL!
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.
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.
Stop bringing logic into this. There are billions of dollars in payola at stake.
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.
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.
Japan doesn't have "immigrants" blowing things up.
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T-Bone, you must be an old Confederate. Didn’t know there were any left, out West we don’t hear such things.
I think its partly dyslexia or something, cuz my brain immediately goes to “Lincoln”.
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