Re: Transrapid's latest story

[M P Muresan <matemur@pantheon.yale.edu>]

On Mon, 24 May 1999, David Bromage wrote:

>  Atlanta - Chattanooga
	...there's a well-travelled route for you!  The Chattanooga Mag-Lag,
formerly known as the Chattanooga Choo-Choo. 

>  Moscow - St Petersburg
	...with an extension from Moscow to Petropavlovsk-Kamchatskyi, and
then over the Baring straits to Alaska and Washington D.C. 

>  Rio De Janiro - Sao Paulo - Campinas
	...S.Paulo to Rio has been discussed for quite some time (as a normal
high speed line, mind you) and it could make sense if financing were
available.  But S.Paulo to Campinas?  There's 100km that would transit 100
passengers a day, if that.  There is currently a fairly modern railways
between two cities but only for freight; and a fast highway, Rodovia dos
Bandeirantes, which the Govt built at considerable expense and which does its
job well, and which doesn't have any need to be replaced.

Other ideas:
	-the penguin maglev: North Pole-South Pole, via Baghdad;
	-the freedom maglev: Beijing-Lhasa;
	-the peacekeeping maglev: Tirana-Pristina;
	-the island maglev: connecting all of the Polynesian islands;

MPLM