I agree that it’s a political problem, but I think that a modernized rail system would be well-used if it were available.

I would be shocked if they actually start building the northeast maglev. Happy, but shocked.

I would be surprised if the French TGV can go into tunnels at those speeds, or maintain them safely 24-7. Also, the 100 years figure is one I completely made up based on what I’ve seen from conventional trains, I have no idea how long maglev track actually lasts.

Also, the scmaglev is advertised to be able to hold up to 728 people in the 12 car configuration, and can probably reach high frequencies similar to the rest of the shincansen system.

Speed matters for people to actually want to use trains, and maglevs are supposed to be both much faster and even more comfortable than conventional rail. They are a proven technology by this point.

Yes, it’s not cheap, but it has the ability to significantly improve rail service in the northeast, and as the richest country in the world surely we should be able to afford that.

The other argument I’ve seen is that we have to go through all of the trouble and lawsuits around obtaining a new right of way anyways, even for normal high speed rail, so we may as well put the best technology available there.

The UI looks the same lol

The layers are the big thing, but its hard to show because the final result looks the same anyways

Yeah, I just see that said a lot and think its a bad excuse for having bad service.

Especially when we had much better service 100 years ago, with a fraction of the modern day population.

The estimated cost of construction of the maglev line in Japan is a bit less than 10% of the yearly U.S. military budget. The Northeast Corridor is about 10% longer, so let’s round that to 11%. And I would be surprised if that infrastructure would not be used at least partially 100 years after construction.

Keep in mind that the proposal is to buy the technology from the SCMaglev people, which is something IIRC they indicated they were supportive of doing.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northeast_Maglev

It’s currently stuck in an indefinitely paused environmental review as far as I can tell, due to no one caring about it I guess

And yet we don’t have true hsr in the northeast, where the big cities are…

It looks closer to the markdown style of formatting though, and I doubt it has page formatting, or other more advanced formatting, or extensions, or a large selection of fonts. Honestly, even though docs has pageless formatting now, most people don’t use it when they should, making everything unnecessary harder to read, so this will be better in that regard at least. This is probably good enough for 95% of what people use Docs for, but I wouldn’t call it a replacement.

I haven’t used it because I don’t have a French government account, so correct me if I’m wrong about any of that.

Edit: it looks like it only has 1 font and no page formatting

I think it means half less than 5, or 4.5

Maybe you’d say “half until 5” in english