As long as it was brought up, there's a commercial mag-lev system from
Shanghai's Pudong airport to the Longyang Road metro station. It has
been operating for almost three years. The trip takes about seven
minutes at a top speed of about 270 MPH (during a test it went about 313
MPH) and costs about $5 for ticketed air passengers. The same trip by
road took me about 45 minutes in the middle of the night with no
traffic. I note that in "An Inconvenient Truth" Al Gore is shown making
the trip in a chauffered limo rather than on the train.
The line is being extended to the Shanghai South railway station, the
Expo 2010 site, and the Hongqiao airport.
TTFN, Mark
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