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[ijmorlan]

Hyperloop? That is a publicity scheme by Elon Musk. Are you talking about High Speed Rail?

Publicity scheme by Elon Musk?
Huh?

Dubai is set to launch Hyperloop next year in 2020....lol...

Very amusing. At most they will have a test track. The idea that a new engineering technology will go from starting construction to taking passengers in less time than our perfectly routine LRT took to be constructed is absurd. There is a reason why vacuum trains haven’t gone anywhere in the over 100 years since the concept was first explored.

But that’s Dubai. The comment to which I was responding was about Ontario, where I don’t think anybody has even pretended to propose a HyperLoop system. That’s why I asked if they meant HSR, which the previous Liberal government claimed to be working on, and had actually done some study work on. Although I don’t recall hearing a specific announcement that Ford or the Conservatives had cancelled it, it’s at least reasonable to talk about them cancelling it. By contrast, as far as I know it’s impossible for Ford to cancel HyperLoop, because the Ontario government is not involved in HyperLoop.