[lev99]

> I don't think it's wild Silicon Valley chatter to say that public transportation along fixed routes WILL decline as a result of new technology, and this is a great thing.

I do.

People are leaving rural and suburbs for cities. Cities are becoming more dense. Fixed line transportation offers significantly more passengers/area/hour than roads. Tokyo supplies 40M daily train rides. Nothing Lyft/Uber/Didi is doing suggests anything close to that amount of density.

Hyperloops are going to push maximum passenger density of fixed route paths even higher.

[technobabble]

While you are correct in that technology like Hyperloops can solve the following issue, public infrastrucute, like the housing problem, is a political and social problem too. Take Chicago, for example. Musk and Emmanual talked about a Hyperloop between O'Hare airport and downtown. How is that going to benefit the average inter-city commuter?

[lev99]

That specific implementation won't help the average intercity commuter, but that doesn't mean that the tool is not useful for heping intercity commuters.