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China's HSR has an issue in that it doesn't go to the city centers, you still have to take a metro or bus to get there.
I can't imagine how difficult it's gonna be getting land for maglev. Shanghai's maglev was supposed to connect the Hongqiao and Pudong airports, but they got NIMBY'd by property owners who wanted a bigger setback and used FUDD to organize protests.
Maglevs tend to have wheels that get deployed on approach, so I don't think that's a big issue. The property owners is likely a trickier problem to deal with, but even if you make it to the edge of the city and take public transit from there, that's still pretty convenient.
I don't understand what this is addressing
Ih I misread your reply where you were talking about land, I thought you were talking about landing the maglev for some reason.
What kinda property owners? Do you happen to have a news link or some such? Were those landowners or what?
I can't find any English-language papers covering the protests that did any actual journalism.
There's quite a few that covered the protests, but only in service of the typical "ccp bad, the people yearn for freedom" story, so they didn't bother with such details.