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Hyperloop One reveals strongest potential Hyperloop routes

by thesanerguy on 9/14/17, 4:38 PM with 54 comments

• by nugator on 9/14/17, 5:41 PM

  For the lazy:

  U.S. Cheyenne – Denver – Puelbo (360 miles) Chicago – Columbus – Pittsburgh (488 miles) Miami – Orlando (257 miles) Dallas – Houston (640 miles)

  U.K. Edinburgh – London (414 miles) Glasgow – Liverpool (339 miles)

  Mexico Mexico City – Guadalajara (330 miles)

  India Bengaluru – Chennai (208 miles) Mumbai – Chennai (685 miles)

  Canada Toronto – Montreal (400 miles)

• by Animats on 9/14/17, 6:00 PM

  How's the proposed Dubai to Abu Dhabi route coming along? Hyperloop One announced that last year. That's the ideal situation - flat undeveloped desert between the endpoints. Few routing problems. Short distance. Enough money to make it work.[1]

  [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi8o8gB_F24

• by zardo on 9/14/17, 5:57 PM

  Why not use the original street-car/suburb model?

  Buy cheap land.

  Build a highspeed line to a place with very high land values.

  Profit.

  And of course, start selling the land early to fund the line.

• by blackrock on 9/14/17, 5:41 PM

  I think this proves that the Hyperloop will be a complete economic failure.

  The most important line is missing from the list.

  * Los Angeles to San Francico and San Jose

  * Los Angeles to Las Vegas

  Who really wants to take a Hyperloop from Houston to Dallas?

  And even if you can, then you need to rent a car just to get around, or spend several hundred dollars on Uber/Lyft.

• by raesene9 on 9/14/17, 5:42 PM

  That UK routes feature at all on this list makes me feel it's not that grounded in "likely to happen in the near-medium term"

  The UK has an existing High speed rail project, HS2(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2) which isn't as ambitious as what's proposed here, but is slated to cost £56 billion and isn't going to even reach Birmingham from London till 2026.

• by panzagl on 9/14/17, 6:02 PM

  The I-25 corridor is ideal- 20 miles to the east of it is basically BFE so it should be relatively simple to acquire right of way compared to, say California or the Northeast corridor. Also easier to deal with one state gov't instead of multiple.

• by chx on 9/14/17, 6:35 PM

  Of course. Both Hyperloop and Boom are feasible both economically and physically. Not to mention Theranos and uBeam. LOL. OK, I cheated: at least physics is not against Boom. It just fits in this arch.

• by Raphmedia on 9/14/17, 6:02 PM

  "Toronto <-> Montreal" would be very interesting. It could help close some of the cultural gap between Québec and Ontario.

  Edit: Why the downvotes? Canada is a big place. Being able to move quickly between the two metropolitan areas would be great for both provinces. The nearest city from Montréal is the city of Québec (3h drive) and the next closest is Toronto (5h drive).

• by JustAnotherPat on 9/14/17, 5:37 PM

  I assume this takes into consideration costs, because otherwise, I don't see how NYC-DC isn't number 1.

• by capkutay on 9/14/17, 5:26 PM

  Pretty telling how they left California off the list. The California High Speed Rail project is a testament to the pork, inefficiencies, poor planning, and NIMBYism involved in major infrastructure projects in this state.

• by zdkl on 9/14/17, 5:48 PM

  Can anyone think of a good reason that something involving the Benelux and either Paris or Berlin isn't considered?

• by pascalxus on 9/14/17, 5:32 PM

  Who's commute is reflected in those destinations? Did they give this thing any thought?