Forget High-Speed Rail -- DFW Could Be Getting a Hyperloop

[TexasTowelie]

High-speed rail, the white whale of North Texas transportation planners, has some competition, the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Transportation Council plans to announce Wednesday. In addition to rail, the RTC will consider Virgin's Hyperloop One technology in an upcoming environmental impact study of a high-speed connector for Dallas, Arlington and Fort Worth.

“The RTC is all about bringing innovation to the transportation system in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, and hyperloop would be an exciting technology to add,” said Gary Fickes, Tarrant County commissioner and chairman of the Regional Transportation Council. “I think the future’s very bright for hyperloop and its use in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.”

High-speed rail, the white whale of North Texas transportation planners, has some competition, the Dallas-Fort Worth Regional Transportation Council plans to announce Wednesday. In addition to rail, the RTC will consider Virgin's Hyperloop One technology in an upcoming environmental impact study of a high-speed connector for Dallas, Arlington and Fort Worth.

“The RTC is all about bringing innovation to the transportation system in the Dallas-Fort Worth region, and hyperloop would be an exciting technology to add,” said Gary Fickes, Tarrant County commissioner and chairman of the Regional Transportation Council. “I think the future’s very bright for hyperloop and its use in the Dallas-Fort Worth region.”

Read more: http://www.dallasobserver.com/news/dallas-could-be-getting-a-hyperloop-10893747

I read elsewhere that if this comes to fruition then it would look at tying in Austin into the Hyperloop.

[calimary]

1. Most intriguing.

[Cicada]

2. An air leak leaves everyone on the walls like tooth paste

The passenger car is in a vacuum. If the seal between the car and the vacuum is broken then everything in the car will instantly exit to the vacuum at high speed. Splat!

I saw a scientist talk about this in a video and he seemed persuasive. Ok for freight but anything alive is at grave risk. In space there is little to hit but a tube on earth might get a woodchuck burrowing in etc.