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]<p>[1] <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi8o8gB_F24" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi8o8gB_F24</a>
Why not use the original street-car/suburb model?<p>Buy cheap land.<p>Build a highspeed line to a place with very high land values.<p>Profit.<p>And of course, start selling the land early to fund the line.
I think this proves that the Hyperloop will be a complete economic failure.<p>The most important line is missing from the list.<p>* Los Angeles to San Francico and San Jose<p>* Los Angeles to Las Vegas<p>Who really wants to take a Hyperloop from Houston to Dallas?<p>And even if you can, then you need to rent a car just to get around, or spend several hundred dollars on Uber/Lyft.
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"<p>The UK has an existing High speed rail project, HS2(<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Speed_2</a>) 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.
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.
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.
"Toronto <-> Montreal" would be very interesting. It could help close some of the cultural gap between Québec and Ontario.<p>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).
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.