4. Shinkansen Chuo
Place: Japan
All in all, about $90 billion
Year Completed: 2027
The Central Japan Railway Company (JR Central) announced in 2007 that they would fund the Chuo Shinkansen’s construction and take on the project’s challenges on their own. A sixteen-mile tunnel under the Japanese Alps is presently under construction, with completion anticipated in 2025. The tunnel will descend to a maximum depth of four thousand six hundred feet.
Shinkansen Chuo ©YMZK-Image via Shutterstock
The Japanese government proposes to loan JR Central the money required to finish the high-speed rail extension of Japan by 2037 in an effort to forward the completion date by three years. Up to 310 miles per hour of frictionless travel will be possible thanks to the levitating force produced by the superconducting magnets on the trains and the coils on the rails. Eventually, with no wheel friction, passengers will be able to travel the three hundred miles from Tokyo to Osaka in just sixty-seven minutes, all the while enjoying a pleasant, smooth trip.
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