[jazzyjackson]

20 miles of maglev track from the shanghai airport to the city cost 1.2 billion dollars for China to build, god knows how much it would cost Americans (NYC spent about a billion per mile on the last expansion to the subway, and that's hundred year old tech)

[seanmcdirmid]

Japan is building a maglev between Tokyo and Osaka. The Nagoya stretch will be done this decade.

The Shanghai maglev is kind of a pink elephant, it doesn’t even go to downtown Shanghai. I took it once for the novelty l, but a cab is much better time wise and about the same price.

[jazzyjackson]

I was really looking forward to taking it since I read about maglev in Popular Mechanics as a kid, but my flight was 6am and the train didn't start running til 6:30! cab ride it is...