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High-speed rail, the white whale of North Texas transportation planners, has some competition, the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Transportation Council plans to announce Wednesday. In addition to rail, the RTC will consider Virgin's Hyperloop One technology in an upcoming environmental impact study of a high-speed connector for Dallas, Arlington and Fort Worth.
The RTC is all about bringing innovation to the transportation system in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, and hyperloop would be an exciting technology to add, said Gary Fickes, Tarrant County commissioner and chairman of the Regional Transportation Council. I think the futures very bright for hyperloop and its use in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.
High-speed rail, the white whale of North Texas transportation planners, has some competition, the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Transportation Council plans to announce Wednesday. In addition to rail, the RTC will consider Virgin's Hyperloop One technology in an upcoming environmental impact study of a high-speed connector for Dallas, Arlington and Fort Worth.
The RTC is all about bringing innovation to the transportation system in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, and hyperloop would be an exciting technology to add, said Gary Fickes, Tarrant County commissioner and chairman of the Regional Transportation Council. I think the futures very bright for hyperloop and its use in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.
Read more: http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-could-be-getting-a-hyperloop-10893747
I read elsewhere that if this comes to fruition then it would look at tying in Austin into the Hyperloop.
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(81,110 posts)Cicada
(4,533 posts)The passenger car is in a vacuum. If the seal between the car and the vacuum is broken then everything in the car will instantly exit to the vacuum at high speed. Splat!
I saw a scientist talk about this in a video and he seemed persuasive. Ok for freight but anything alive is at grave risk. In space there is little to hit but a tube on earth might get a woodchuck burrowing in etc.