So now ReGovernor Moonbeam's high-speed-rail ego trip is being upstaged by Elon Musk's "Hyperloop" thingy, which would allow convenient travel between SF and LA in just over half an hour.
The question remains: just how many people actually travel between SF and LA on a sufficiently regular basis to make this worthwhile?
As a wise fool once remarked:
Bypasses are devices that allow some people to dash from point A to point B very fast while other people dash from point B to point A very fast. People living at point C, being a point directly in between, are often given to wonder what’s so great about point A that so many people from point B are so keen to get there, and what’s so great about point B that so many people from point A are so keen to get there. They often wish that people would just once and for all work out where the hell they wanted to be.
Yeah, parts of the freeways between SF and LA are crowded. They're not crowded with daily commuters from SF to LA and vice-versa; they're crowded with daily commuters making much shorter hops among the in-between cities. A high-speed SF-to-LA connection would benefit only a few really special individuals... plus of course some high-end construction contractors.
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