Elon Musk's new 5th form of transportation. The Hyperloop.

[DaFace]

Originally Posted by GloucesterChief

I really liked the shinkansen in Japan and the Dutch fast trains were pretty nice too. They are building a bullet train in TX but it won't be as convenient since it is not going downtown to downtown between Houston and Dallas.

One of the most challenging aspects of any sort of mass transit development in the modern age is all the stuff that's in the way. In order to get stations in the most convenient locations, you usually have to destroy a ton of existing structures (houses, buildings, roads, etc.). Denver recently expanded tons of rail lines out into the burbs, but the stations are largely in places everyone has to drive to since they built them along existing freight rail lines.

[GloucesterChief]

Originally Posted by DaFace

One of the most challenging aspects of any sort of mass transit development in the modern age is all the stuff that's in the way. In order to get stations in the most convenient locations, you usually have to destroy a ton of existing structures (houses, buildings, roads, etc.). Denver recently expanded tons of rail lines out into the burbs, but the stations are largely in places everyone has to drive to since they built them along existing freight rail lines.

Both Japan and the Netherlands use a hub a spoke system when it comes to that. The fast trains come into a central station and more local transit radiates from there.

Japan's metro companies really are real estate companies though. They own the stations and the office, retail, and sometimes housing built into or on top of the stations.