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More boondoggle for the consulting class, still not a mile of operational high speed rail in the whole country
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At this point just pay China to build the damn thing, everything we have is already made in China anyway what's the difference
Not even just worse. It's like the worst idea ever. a 140mph bus has enough kinetic energy to turn the average passenger vehicle into a literal pancake. Nobody is surviving that.
Just put it on a dedicated, physically separated lane, connecting each bus to maximize throughput. You can use harder, metal tires to reduce friction loss.
now this is innovation right here
call it B-train
Not to mention the only way to get a bus up to that speed consistently is if it had its own dedicated lane with limited entrances with very gradual curves. And if you’ve bothered building out the infrastructure for all that, you might as well have just built out the infrastructure for HSR.
Methinks the idea here is they’ll add “just one more lane” with the pinky promise for it to be for the high-tech bullet buses. A shit-ton of money will be thrown at startups and consultants to “innovate” the bus lane design, in the end they’ll produce butkis, and it’ll end up just being an overpriced highway widening.
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Cowards won't even match highspeed rail speeds.