A while back (upon further thought more like twenty years ago, egad), I was in a focus group which was shown various things, one of them being the perennial idea of a cargo ship dock up on Hayden Island. Possibly inconveniently, I knew the neighborhood well from the OryCons held there; I pointed out that while it was right on the Columbia River there were only a few small roads on the island itself and only a single bridge connecting it to the rest of the world - a bridge that is already packed to parking-lot status every rush hour. Nobody had a good answer about how to get cargo off of the dock and the subject kind of died there.

Has anyone asked if Elon Musk plans a prototype Hyperloop connecting his plant and Reno?