Originally Posted by moondog

The reason it is only 30 km in length is because that was the minimum distance needed for proof of concept, but as we all know, those 30 km are not very useful.

More importantly, the MOR decided against deploying Maglev on a wider scale, and went with CRH instead, which is almost as fast.

I met an MOR friend yesterday, who told me that the PVG-Shanghai-Jiaxing train is in the works, though I found nothing on Google or Baidu confirming this.

Speaking of rumors, we had many threads about the Maglev being extended to downtown Shanghai, Jiaxing, and Hangzhou in the past, but this never panned out. This is similar to the PVG-Jiaxing train rumor, but I can actually envision the latter happening because PVG is a logical candidate for train service that goes somewhere useful.