Modern low floor buses can pull up closely to high curb platforms, allowing level boarding, no need to lower.

Fundamentally, there are 2 types of bus route. One is a “corridor” route, which typically travels along a single road in a relatively straight path. These routes typically have high frequencies and higher ridership.

So all you need is air rights and a pile driver? Literally the exact criticism I had of unrealistic monorail hype? Seriously? And the rest of your post is filled with the type of HSR misinformation that makes me hate hyperloop.

Because half their pitch is about how conventional high speed rail doesn’t work, and because all transporation competes for public space and funding in the long run. Even when private companies used to build things like railroads, they still needed government support to acquire the rights of way.

I think at this point I don’t expect a Marvel movie to flop to the degree a Fox or a Sony comic movie would. But the magic may be fading, and they may be waiting too long to bring in fresh characters, besides ant-man.

Hyperloop’s biggest obstacle is that it’s adherents aren’t serious about transportation, they see proven forms of High Speed Rail and mass transit as a failure, and are looking for something completely different. They think that pods in tubes can be a quantum leap similar to the jump from flip phones to smartphones.

I remember trying to explain to a coworker the first point. We he was concerned that after qualifying for a special bonus program, he’d be slightly into the next bracket and lose money. I tried to explain to him the way it stepped, but he couldn’t wrap his brain around it.

“mainly because of its location and confusing inner structures.”

No Deathstroke poster? I though Slade was in Suicide Squad

The scariest thing is that Andy Reid has gotten substantially better at challenges. From an article in 2009:

The problem with a gondola system is that it only becomes an effective part of the overall transit picture if it makes useful subway connections.

There are no forms of transportation that don’t become an overburdened mess.

You know what’s crazy? In most of the US a bar, even one that serves little to no food is required to provide ample parking. We are so addicted to cars that we invite drunk drivers to park directly outside their watering hole.

You can drive where the government built you roads, and “whenever you want” has to account for the traffic delay you and other drivers create.

The US is not “too spread out” for HSR. There’s a whole lot of empty “flyover country” that can be ignored for this type of planning.

When two high speed trains pass, the air between them gets rapidly compressed and creates a shockwave between them. I’ve experienced it on regular old commuter rail in Philly and New York. You only really hear it inside the train. If there’s nothing for the shockwave to compress against, it dissipates in a matter of a…

Volvo 1800s

I have a hunch that pickup truck fetishists also want to “Buy American!” on the truck they’ll mostly use to go to walmart to buy imported merchandise.

I’d probably still get Tacoma*, but that’s because:

damnit, I already have enough atrocious guilty pleasure CW/MTV/ABC Family Freeform shows