"Hyperloop Is Nonsense": Zelensky's Team Criticizes Omelyan's Idea
Vladyslav Kryklii, likely future head of the Verkhovna Rada's Transport Committee, commented on the work of the infrastructure minister.
Vladyslav Kryklii, whom the Servant of the People party is nominating for the post of head of the transport committee of the Verkhovna Rada of Ukraine, said that "Hyperloop is obvious nonsense."
In an interview with Liga.net, when asked to assess the work of the current Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan, Kryklii said that, unlike the minister, he did not intend to criticize "for show or hype" or to engage in a "witch hunt." According to him, "a lot of useful things have been done, but there were also some very controversial decisions."
"For example, Hyperloop," Kryklii noted. "It is obvious nonsense. To understand this, it is enough to come to the central railway station (in Kyiv, ed.) and look at the escalator that has not been working for four years."
Kryklii described the solution to the problem as "basic amenities, the creation of which does not require great effort."
"It was enough to give Ukrzaliznytsia an instruction at the time, before it was placed directly under the Cabinet of Ministers, but even after that it was possible and necessary to publicly hold the head of Ukrzaliznytsia accountable," he stressed.
Hyperloop is a concept of a vacuum train proposed in 2013 by Elon Musk. To date, it has not been fully implemented: several test sites have been built, and Musk's Boring Company is building a tunnel between Baltimore and Washington in the United States.
In February 2018, Ukraine's Minister of Infrastructure Volodymyr Omelyan announced the creation of the HypeUA Transport Innovation Center, which was to build a test site for the implementation of the Hyperloop project in Ukraine.
In May 2019, in an interview with Interfax-Ukraine, Minister Omelyan called the project "not a PR stunt," saying that it was at the stage of completing a scientific assessment and searching for funding.
"Our idea is to create a full-fledged Transport Innovation Center in Dnipro and try to launch Hyperloop – it would become one of the projects of this transport center," Omelyan insisted. "What have we already done? We have essentially completed the scientific assessment, prepared an application for funding from European funds, and roughly understand from which sources and in what amount the project will be financed. We plan that the Transport Innovation Center in Dnipro will attract active young people in the form of startups for such innovations."
According to the minister, after attracting investment, an assessment of the safety of this technology should begin.
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