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- A Star Wars-esque innovation promises to put at least some of the nightmarish traffic on Texas’ most clogged roadways — I-35, I-45, and I-10 — in our rearview mirrors.
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On Thursday, April 6, a company called Hyperloop One named a proposed high-speed, L-shaped route linking Austin, Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Laredo as one of 11 U.S. finalists in a contest to develop a futuristic tube-based system for shuttling passengers and cargo. Hyperloop One says it’ll give three U.S. proposals the green light to proceed.
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The 640-mile Hyperloop in Texas would stretch south from Dallas-Fort Worth to Austin, San Antonio, and Laredo, and would stretch east from San Antonio to Houston. Dallas-Fort Worth and Houston would not be connected, as the state’s two largest metro areas tentatively are in line for a much-debated, high-speed bullet train.
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That would be crazy :D imagine a track from Los Angels all the way to New York..
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I'm excited to see this plan finally come to action. Hopefully this helps reduce rush hour traffic.
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there is NO REASON the hyperloop has to be long distance.
imagine..
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That's a very interesting take on fighting congestion. I personally feel that the hyperloop would serve better as a long distance means of transportation, while the tunnels would be mostly confined to cities and metropolitan areas.
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what's the difference?
why not have a personal vehicle that will travel in either?
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You could probably travel in either, but the difference is construction time. Drilling the tunnels and setting up supports takes much longer than building an above ground tube, so it's unlikely to see many tunnels outside of large population areas.
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no reason there has to be tunnels at all.
just tubes.
a tube could be run anywhere a power line or telephone cable is run.
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put it together on the surface then plow it under.
the interstate medians are just sitting there.
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You would need some large tubes to serve that amount of traffic. At that pace if you are burrowing it underground, you're basically still building a tunnel. It's very unlikely there could be mass volume on a normal sized hyperloop tube using individual cars.
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already been done..
we just pump natural gas thru them.
not to mention aqueducts and oil pipelines...
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Interesting idea, we could probably do with something similar here in Australia.
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Hi-tech times coming and coming are so anti-depressives !
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about damn time.
I-35/i-45/I-10 is a fricking nightmare.
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This plan must be implemented!!!!
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Anything to keep me off I-35!!
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