Munich would be better served by a more conventional railway link between airport and city center, running on relatively short headways at fast, but not necessarily hyper-fast speeds.
The problem with that is, well, where to put it? There are currently two S-Bahn lines connecting the airport with the city - one east-ish and one west-ish, and you'd probably have to sacrifice one of them to run fast trains through on them. This would, naturally, annoy the residents of one half of the city. The obvious "straight line" route is occupied by a river!
The maglev route (http://www.magnetbahn-bayern.de/projekt_magnetbahn_bayern.html) starts off following the S-Bahn, but not for far. The rest of the route follows a major highway - again, not somewhere you can put a train line - before going underground (which any new link of any sort would have to do).
The cost estimates are €27 million per kilometre for the maglev, as opposed to €34 million, per kilometre which is what the last German fast rail project cost.
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Date: 2007-09-25 08:29 pm (UTC)The problem with that is, well, where to put it? There are currently two S-Bahn lines connecting the airport with the city - one east-ish and one west-ish, and you'd probably have to sacrifice one of them to run fast trains through on them. This would, naturally, annoy the residents of one half of the city. The obvious "straight line" route is occupied by a river!
The maglev route (http://www.magnetbahn-bayern.de/projekt_magnetbahn_bayern.html) starts off following the S-Bahn, but not for far. The rest of the route follows a major highway - again, not somewhere you can put a train line - before going underground (which any new link of any sort would have to do).
The cost estimates are €27 million per kilometre for the maglev, as opposed to €34 million, per kilometre which is what the last German fast rail project cost.