Comments on: Blisteringly Powerful 310 MPH Train Unleashed

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 22:12:00 +0000

disqus, sorry. best system i know of.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 02:03:00 +0000

RE: The BTW, I have to post and then edit in the breaks.

Try a copy and paste from Wiki sometimes if you want to see something nasty….

By: Altair IV

Altair IV — Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:37:00 +0000

I don’t think you’ll find any significant numbers of daily commuters between these cities, but you will find some. There are, for example, situations where a worker is transferred, but the family wants to continue living where they were. And considering that some commutes from the Tokyo suburbs to the downtown are already upwards of 1-2 hours one-way, in standing-room-only trains, the high-speed service could even be preferred.

But in any case, the Tokyo-Nagoya-Kyoto-Osaka route is certainly the busiest corridor in the country, so any attempt to improve the high-speed system tends to pay off in the long run. The existing Shinkansen service is constantly working to shave off even a few minutes all the time.

(BTW, is anyone else unable to enter line-breaks in these reply fields? I had to type this up in a separate editor?)

By: Zachary Shahan

Zachary Shahan — Mon, 03 Dec 2012 13:41:00 +0000

it’s going to happen. it’s inevitable. while i wish people would and could locate themselves 100x better than they do, that is simply idealistic.

By: Bob_Wallace

Bob_Wallace — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:31:00 +0000

40 million people use the Greater Tokyo rail system daily. I think personal aircraft is not a solution.

By: Conrad Clement

Conrad Clement — Sun, 02 Dec 2012 18:24:00 +0000

Some more concerns to broaden my own questioning:

How will the new high-speed rail link between Tokyo and Nagoya impact on current intense commuting from and to the respective suburbs and smaller peripheral cities?

Will this lead to a bipolar urban black hole attracting all of the remaining populations from both suburban and surrounding rural areas — with the specter of fatally over-industrialized agriculture closing in?

IMHO the personal aircraft is indeed the solution deemed to cater for both intercity and peripheral commuting — and BTW help connect Japan more efficiently to its neighbors…

By: MrEnergyCzar

MrEnergyCzar — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 20:04:00 +0000

competing industry can financially influence lawmaking legally, until that changes, I don’t expect great things to happen…..

By: Conrad Clement

Conrad Clement — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 19:34:00 +0000

Can anybody explain the intrinsic usefulness of daily commuting between two big cities? Why not have instead the commuters move respectively to the city where they work? I’d really like to see the problematic complexity of this issue discussed to some length…

By: Edward Kerr

Edward Kerr — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 13:14:00 +0000

This is what a “SMART” energy constrained country does….the entire world is energy constrained and we in this country had better get out heads out of our butts on this issue.

By: Envisave

Envisave — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 10:31:00 +0000

I wish the Japanese technology comes to India, as it has severely strained train infrastructure in operation. I hope this could also reduce energy dependency by certain standards.

By: MrEnergyCzar

MrEnergyCzar — Sat, 01 Dec 2012 04:49:00 +0000

This is what an energy constrained country does…

MrEnergyCzar