Sure. Why should California have all the fun?
PING.
How about one from DC to Gitmo?
So you could vote in 4 counties on Election Day ...
The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission has done such a wonderful job on the turnpike that it only makes sense to put them in charge of this project.
A choo choo! We libs love us some choo choos!
Hey for 2 million bucks I’ll study anything!
So how many people will need to get from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh in half an hour?
How much will it cost to travel?
How in the heck can I get this “study” money for so many government things.
For just $1 million I can hit google over a week or 2, go visit some cool places and contract a few engineers I know from college, then write a 600 page report no one will read.
And that is just for this one.
Climate Change pays very well.
Driving across PA is an experience in east coast geology. Flat piedmont, up to hills and mountains. Then back down across glacial valleys, down to the Great Lakes. Yeah, zipping across that at 700 mph would be a thrill ride.
If you could actually move bulk freight from Philly to Pittsburg in a half an hour for a cost orders of magnitude less than it would cost for air travel, it would be a big win. If you could link in hooks in Scranton and Harrisburg, this hypothetical hyperloop could change the state of freight and logistics across the east coast. That is a fact.
Also... another fact: If my grandmother had wheels, she would be a bicycle. There’s just no way to eminent domain that much territory through over and under existing towns, mountains and established infrastructure to build up to the potential, much less incorporate a complex system of transfer terminals into existing logistics facilities and establish competitive freight rates. Even if the territory could be allocated for an efficient route and the Boring company be able to efficiently carve out tunnels through mountainsides and across rivers without causing a calamity for crackers, some politician would get elected on a promise that seriously this time property taxes would go down if we just passed a hyperloop tax. Since it would take years to build such a project, any tax would be imposed, raised, and then earmarked to be diverted to the turnpike commission pension fund well before the first dollar was collected.
In a state as gleefully corrupt in it’s transportation sector as PA, there will just be too many hands grabbing at the cookie jar to allow it to work.
Why not $2 million dollars for a study about a Star Trek transporter?
That would be faster.
Or a $2 million dollar study on whether young, rich and healthy people are happier than old, poor and sick people.
The concept doesn’t violate any of the laws of physics (Scotty would agree). It’s at least worth studying. Where’s the can-do spirit these days?
Bwahahahaha
Oh goody. Now Pennsylvania can replicate California
is this the first signal of gavin newsom for president?
i can envision it already:
“make high speed rail great again!”
lol
There's a huge red flag, taxpayers.
BTW, just checked your state budget, Pennsy. Thanks to your public pension obligations and Medicaid spending, you can't afford it.
The safety issues keep coming to my mind...
What if there is a break down? 700 mph is a LOT of momentum that would disintegrate a ‘de-levitated’ train...
What if there is a loss of power? You can’t just get out and walk in a depressurized tunnel without dying, and there would have to be a plethora of life support equipment that would have to be redundant with independent power...
Sounds like a death tunnel to me.
What a scam. I wonder to whom is he related?