• @AA5B
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    2511 months ago

    Looks like it is a 6 mile line that will demonstrate whether maglev is practical

    • @Linkerbaan
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      2311 months ago

      Surely they can’t just go to Japan and find out it’s very expensive and not really worth it compared to just building traditional trains. They must first waste trillions on it themselves.

      Parade pony projects should be banned from public transport already.

      • @Tangent5280
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        911 months ago

        Sure, there are better ways to spend the money, but there are much worse ways also.

        The way that spending like this comes back to bite us is when anti-public transport lobbies use this as a poster child for why trains won’t work instead of for why maglev doesn’t work.

        • @nutsack
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          511 months ago

          i would build a national porn studio the size of an airport

      • @[email protected]
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        211 months ago

        Completely different systems for completely different applications. Japan is building over-regional high-speed rail, this is about a metro-scale application with passive tracks.