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MORPC Hires Consultants To Study Hyperloop Feasibility

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The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission has hired a pair of consulting firms to study the feasibility of a Midwest hyperloop route that would run through Columbus. 

Environmental impacts of a hyperloop and passenger rail will also be studied. Morpc's Thea Walsh: 
Walsh says the studies will also help provide cost estimates and possible ways to cover those costs. The feasibility study is scheduled to be completed next March, and and the first phase of the environmental impact study is scheduled to be completed four months afterward. 

 

Jim has been with WCBE since 1996. Before that he worked as a reporter at another Columbus radio station, and for three newspapers in Southwest Florida.
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