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What the TRANSRAPID is not: susteinable transportation.
There were analogous British projects 40 years ago, but common sense has shown their costs/benefits simply would not work.
The TRANSRAPID Shanghai airport link (less than 20 miles) is an exercise in stupidity.
The Japanese maglev remains just another expensive toy.
The common train has speed potential up to 515 km/h, in the same order of the maglev. So why bother? We have airplanes after all!
Let's hope the Germans will repeal the project, destroy that awful infrastructure supported (not suspended) on pylons, and restore the territory to woods.
Last edited by dario; 25th September 2006 at 20:14.
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