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Even if it’s respectably higher than anything existing, it can only source passengers from hub origins and drop them at hub destinations, leaving last-mile problems yet to be solved. Spokes will be needed at destination hubs, that allow for individualized selective destinations for the last mile. Meanwhile if a city needs 3/4 of it’s workforce through the door by 9AM, congestion at each hub still occurs, and rush hours aren’t actually alleviated, only spread around. Hub stations will be the same horrible kind of place train stations, bus stations and airports are, unless a new conceptualization of origin sourcing and destination arrival is brought to the table. The only new aspect that a hyperloop adds to the equation, to change the game is that, theoretiacally, longer distances can be negotiated, permitting any given urban center to import from greater distances than before, and urban residents can interchange between hubs without 500MPH aviation. Of course, for those promises to hold true, tubes must be cut, and track laid within them. Every mile of interconnection adds compelling power to the principle of the concept. Individual point-to-point connections are meaningless, if there are not many points connected, and the distances aren’t longer than was previously realistic. |