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A rich asshole can buy a hypersonic plane for suborbital jaunts.
Vacuum maglev pipes require cooperation from the people whose land you’re going to take via eminent domain.
eminent domain doesn’t require cooperation
It only requires a police force.
Do you think that kills the idea? We have two major cities with 300km of mostly farmland in between where I live, so I'm pretty sure it would be no problem here - if investors would fund it.
You could build them along existing tracks (not that it's a good idea in the first place)
Higher speed trains need much larger turn radius so existing RoW is not suitable. They’re running into the same issue trying to build high speed rail into the SF Bay Area.