If *this* was an option for your route, would you choose it or stick to flying? (HyperLoop)

[edhopper]

19. As with air travel

it's not the actual flight that cost time. For this you need a large infrastructure for getting people to the entry point and from the end point or at least giant parking facilities. You also need ticketing, security, baggage handling, etc...
The pinch points of flying are before take off and after landing. It will be the same with this.
And unlike flying a single mechanical failure will shut down the whole system.

I don't see why this, which has a limited passenger capacity and massive building costs, is better than high speed rail, which every other modern country has.