Government May OK Direct Tokyo-Osaka Maglev Line

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The Daily Yomiuri(Tokyo)


JAPAN - The transport ministry is likely to adopt a direct route for the maglev train line that Central Japan Railway Co. will build between Tokyo and Osaka because of its cost-effectiveness.

The route would pass through a tunnel bored through a mountain in the Southern Japanese Alps.

On Wednesday, a subcomittee on the Chuo Shinkansen project at the Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Ministry's Council for Transport Policy listed the cost-effectiveness of various routes proposed for the maglev train system.

In calculating the ratio of the economic effect to the cost of investment, the panel put the direct route at 1.51 times, while the Inadani route, which would make a long detour around the north of the Southern Japanese Alps, was put at 1.24 times. ......(more)

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