[gutnor]

The original plan was to reuse existing infrastructure and have very few stops outside city center. For that scenario the number were holding up.

Now the question is what problem is this solving: you have cheap novel transport system for passenger between 2 points nobody is really interested in.

And that's the wall all the project around hyperloop are hitting. Either you need the government to step in to make it competitive for endpoint that people are currently interested in. Or you keep the original design, but you need the government to step in to ensure those uninteresting endpoints become interesting.