Monorail proposal to link Melbourne airports
Interesting. But don't CityLink have some sort of exclusivity for transport to Tullamarine with their freeways which is one of the reasons an airport rail link was knocked back?
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Monorail!.... Monorail!......... Monoraillllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!
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And your point is? As for the proposal where in the article does it mention the airport? All I see is it talking about Geelong to Frankston. This seems to be a reaction to a report by Rod Eddington (ex Ansett, ex BA) to build some new lines in Melbounre including a new tunnel under the city. People need to stop and think why the Transrapid Maglev only has one customer so far? The reason is because in theory it is good, but in practice not so easy, not so cheap and not as reliable as more traditional forms of transport. Funny how now they are quoting a speed of 250KM/h, when they were proposing Syd/CBR/Mel and SYD/ Wollongong the speed was 500km/h. Traditional steel on steel can do 350KM/h+ on a properly designed track, and on non dedicated tracks can do 200km/h again if designed right. |
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..... and one of the best Simpsons episodes too btw, although they are all tops.
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250km/h for a maglev is very slow - I went for a ride in the one in Shanghai a while back. It's still throttled-back from what it can really do, but is still very fast.
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high operating speeds but also high operating costs!
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I thought it was the other way round, high construction cost but low operating costs.
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Earth to Transrapid??? Are you there??? The article can only be a PR stunt, the Germans have been experimenting with maglev for ages.... Munich was going to build a maglev train as a solution to airport to city woes, I have done the 45+ minute, train trip a number of times, and can confirm it is needed. However the idea has become unstuck when the price tag increased from €1.85 to €3.4 billion for the 40 kilometre track... http://blog.wired.com/cars/2008/03/maglev-project.html http://www.businessweek.com/globalbi...n_id=rss_daily |
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