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Old Posted Aug 13, 2013, 8:00 PM
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Originally Posted by Wooster View Post
Besides the obvious technological challenges - I see a basic problem with this technology being capacity. They're talking about capsules of 6 people - how frequently could you feasibly and safely load and launch these capsules into the tube? What kind of maximum capacity could you have per hour? The good thing about trains is they have a high capacity.
On another forum I was reading, they said each capsule held 28 people. It was discussed that the capsules could be loaded and queued up to be sent off every 1-2 minutes. Even at 3 minutes, that's 20 capsules or 560 people per hour... Sounds like a lot of people

Edit - Bigtime beat me to it on the capsule capacity.
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