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Why are maglev trains still rare?
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this post was submitted on 08 Sep 2023
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because cars cars cars
More likely just the shear cost of building the tracks.
oh yeah, definitely just prohibitive cost
Still cheaper than maglev rails I’d guess.
This argument may be true in regards to rail in general. This specific question is “why not maglev instead of rail”. That’s not car’s fault - it’s just extremely expensive to build maglev and that’s compared even to regular high speed trains.