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Originally Posted by M II A II R II K
I guess the 10km ride will only take like 35 seconds!
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A 4~ mile-long tube would only need one tube and no junctions, so it might actually be technically feasible, unlike a 100+ mile route competing with traditional HSR. It could just be a single capsule shooting back and forth. It would take far more time to load and unload the car than to make the trip. It would be difficult to do more than 7-8 trips per hour, per direction, to account for the loading and unloading, so the capacity would be very low, perhaps 250 passengers per hour, per direction.
Meanwhile, a traditional rapid transit line can run 20+ 1,000 passenger trains per hour, per direction, at 60-80mph.