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Originally Posted by VKChaz
Don't know if this is the intention, but looks to me like this could be implemented as something close to an on-demand service rather than pure scheduled train. Full cars at peak times, closer to empty off peak. With speed as a primary goal, that can make sense.
And with advances in technology, I could imagine something like this evolving into a taxi service able to transfer from tunnel to city streets and take riders to their final endpoint (or alternatively pickup from), eliminating the step of transfering at a terminal. Not that I don't love train terminals.
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I mean, maybe. But if the pods are multi-occupant and have to stop at multiple hotels (or apartments, etc) then riders are going to be frustrated by the slow, meandering routes downtown. I used to hate that on airport shuttles. On the other hand, if the pods are single-occupant, then why even build a tunnel at all? We have the Kennedy.