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Could someone buy land in the potential path of this hyperloop then block access or sell the rights or land to make a profit?
Legally, whoever tried this would be forced to give over the land for "fair market value", and if they were difficult about it they'd probably receive much less.
Eeeh, that looks awfully cramped. Especially for anyone a little overweight.
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Sure, so would high explosives directly on the tube. I am considering a situation that could conceivably be accidental because it is incredibly difficult to engineer something that can stand up to malice.
The bar to malice is important to consider. If the bar is "high explosives or shaped charges", then you are probably okay. If the bar is "a redneck who is bored with shooting stop-signs", then that might be a problem.
The $1 billion budget for land and rights of way also seems wildly optimistic for razing a path through multiple heavily populated metropolitan areas with astronomical real estate prices. And let's not underestimate the tenacity and ingenuity of a determined opposition [6,7].
[1] The 3.2 mile, mostly elevated [1a] BART/OAK connector with dinky little cable cars will cost $361mm for the capital construction alone[1b].
[1a] http://bart.gov/docs/oac/OAC%20Project%20Alignment%20Map%20S...
[1b] (slide 36) http://bart.gov/docs/oac/Microsoft%20PowerPoint%20-%20OAC%20...
[2] http://www.nationalaffairs.com/doclib/20080528_197905505cost...
[3] http://www-pam.usc.edu/volume2/v2i1a3s2.html
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=DkZ...
[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Embarcadero_Freeway
[6] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Highway_revolts#California
[7] http://dc.streetsblog.org/2012/06/25/indianas-big-dig-raises... (this one is hilarious)
http://www.thecomicking.net/2012/06/25/the-core/
The (terrible) movie "The Core" has a vehicle -- the Virgil.
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On a bus you have the chance to get off every 5-10 minutes, that's a big difference. There will be thousands of passengers on that day. Just imagine if you have to do this trip 10 times a day every day for 100 days, will you still take risk? Update (since I've been downvoted): All these buses analogy isn't exactly the same case because they still have the option to stop somewhere, which give the passengers the assura…
You're thinking city buses. I'm thinking long-haul busses (like greyhound in the US). Greyhound buses likely have facilities, what I'm actually talking about are the buses used a core parts of the transportation infrastructure all over South America. Many of these also have facilities but I've been on many where the bathroom isn't functioning or just plain isn't there. You can easily travel for 30 minutes to an hour…
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perhaps you can pour sections and truck those in, but there's no way in hell you're moving a precast that size on anything that doesn't float. For scale, you know those 4' by 4' by 8' blocks of cement you see all over the place, used for erosion control and the like? They're called ecology blocks, they're about $20 each FOB the cement plant. You want them shipped? A lowboy can carry two or four at a time without exce…
Ecology blocks: http://www.tworiverssandandgravel.com/wp-content/uploads/201...
