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Old Posted Aug 13, 2013, 7:13 PM
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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.
Each capsule is actually 28 passengers (840 passengers per hour on a 2 minute departure interval).
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